Chapter 3 ~ Art of Ancient Egypt
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Title:
Funerary mask of Tutankhamun
Medium:
Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones
Size:
Height 21¼" (54.5 cm) Weight 24 pounds (11 kg)
Date:
Eighteenth Dynasty (Tutankhamun, ruled 1332–1322 BCE), c. 1327 BCE
Source/Museum: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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Title:
Ancient Egypt
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Title:
Ancient Egypt
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Title:
The Narmer Palette
Medium:
Green schist
Size:
height 25" (64 cm)
Date:
Early Dynastic period, c. 2950–2775 BCE
Source/Museum: Hierakonpolis / Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Artist: n/a
Title: The Narmer Palette
Medium: Green schist
Size: height 25" (64 cm)
Date: Early Dynastic period, c. 2950–2775 BCE
Source/Museum: Hierakonpolis / Egyptian Museum,
Cairo
Artist: n/a
Title: Old Kingdom standard grid—an Egyptian
canon of proportions for representing the human body
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Title: Plan of Djoser's Funerary Complex, Saqqara
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Date: Third Dynasty, c. 2630–2575 BCE
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Artist: n/a
Title: Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to
Pyramid (Mastaba)
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Source/Museum: Mastaba
Artist: n/a
Title: Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to
Pyramid (Stepped Pyramid)
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Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Stepped Pyramid of Djoser,
Saqqara, c. 2667-2648 BCE
Artist: n/a
Title: Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to
Pyramid (Pyramid)
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Source/Museum: Pyramid: Pyramid of Kafra, Giza,
c. 2600 BCE
Artist: n/a
Title: The step pyramid and sham buildings.
Funerary complex of Djoser, Saqqara
Medium: Limestone
Size: height of pyramid 204' (62 m)
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Artist: n/a
Title: Great Pyramids, Giza
Medium: Granite and limestone
Size: height of pyramid of Khufu, 450' (137 m)
Date: Fourth Dynasty, c. 2575–2450 BCE
Source/Museum: Erected by (from the left)
Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu
Artist: n/a
Title: Model of the Giza plateau. From left to
right: the temples and pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and
Khufu. (number 4 is the valley temple of Menkaure;
number 5 is the valley temple and Sphinx of Khafre.)
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Source/Museum: Prepared for the exhibition “The
Sphinx and the Pyramids: One Hundred Years of American
Archaeology at Giza,” held in 1998 at the Harvard
University Semitic Museum Harvard University Semitic
Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Artist: n/a
Title: Valley temple of Khafre
Medium: Limestone and red granite
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Date: Old Kingdom, c. 2570–2544 BCE
Source/Museum: Giza. Commissioned by Khafre
Artist: n/a
Title: Khafre
Medium: Anorthosite gneiss
Size: height 5' 6⅛" (1.68 m)
Date: Fourth Dynasty (ruled c. 2520–2494 BCE)
Source/Museum: Giza, Valley Temple of Khafre /
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Artist: n/a
Title: Khafre (Detail of head)
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Artist: n/a
Title: Menkaure and a Queen (perhaps his wife
Khamerernebty)
Medium: Graywacke with traces of red and black
paint
Size: height 54½" (142.3 cm)
Date: Fourth Dynasty (ruled 2490–2472 BCE)
Source/Museum: from Giza / Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston Harvard University–MFA Expedition
Artist: n/a
Title: Pepy Ii and His Mother, Queen
Ankhnes-Meryre
Medium: Egyptian alabaster
Size: height 15¼ X 9 13/16" (39.2 X 24.9 cm)
Date: Sixth Dynasty, c. 2323–2152 BCE (ruled. c.
2246–2152 BCE).
Source/Museum: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New
York. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund (39.119)
Artist: n/a
Title: Seated Scribe
Medium: Painted limestone with inlaid eyes of
rock crystal calcite and magnesite mounted in copper
Size: height 21" (53 cm)
Date: Fifth Dynasty, c. 2450–2325 BCE
Source/Museum: found near the tomb of Kai,
Saqqara. Musée du Louvre, Paris
Artist: n/a
Title: Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt
Medium: Painted limestone relief
Size: height approx. 45" (114.3 cm)
Date: Fifth Dynasty, c. 2450–2325 BCE
Source/Museum: Tomb of Ti, Saqqara
Artist: n/a
Title: Head of Senusret III
Medium: Yellow quartzite
Size: height 17¾ X 13½ X 17" (45.1 X 34.3 X 43.2
cm)
Date: Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1938–1755 BCE (ruled c.
1836–1818 BCE)
Source/Museum: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: Nelson Trust (62-11)
Artist: n/a
Title: Rock-cut tombs, Beni Hasan.
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Date: Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1938–1755 BCE
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Artist: n/a
Title: Unfinished relief
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Date: 18th Dynasty
Source/Museum: Tomb of Horemheb, Valley of the
Kings, west bank of the Nile, Egypt
Artist: n/a
Title: Pectoral of Senusret II
Medium: Gold and semiprecious stones
Size: length 3¼" (8.2 cm)
Date: Twelfth Dynasty, c 1938–1755 (ruled c
1842–1837 BCE)
Source/Museum: Tomb of Princess Sithathoryunet,
el-Lahun. / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry Walters Gift, 1916
(16.1.3)
Artist: n/a
Title: Hippopotamus
Medium: Faience
Size: length 7⅞" (20 cm)
Date: Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1938–1755 BCE
Source/Museum: Tomb of Senbi (tomb B.3), Meir. /
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917 (17.9.1)
Artist: n/a
Title: Stele of Amenemhat I
Medium: Painted limestone
Size: 11 X 15" (30 X 50 cm)
Date: Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1938–1755 (ruled c.
1938–1908 BCE)
Source/Museum: Assasif. /
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York. Excavation 1915–16
Artist: n/a
Title: Model of a house and garden
Medium: Painted and plastered wood and copper
Size: length 33" (87 cm)
Date: Eleventh Dynasty, c. 2125–2055 BCE
Source/Museum: tomb of Meketre, Deir el-Bahi. /
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase,
Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920 (20.3.13)
Artist: n/a
Title: Plan of the northern section of Kahun,
built during the reign of Senusret II. Near modern El-Lahun.
Dynasty 12, c. 1880–1874 BCE
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Title: The ruins of the Great Temple of Amun, at
Karnak, Egypt
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Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction Drawing of the Great Temple
of Amun at Karnak, Egypt. New Kingdom, c. 1579–1075 BCE
Medium: n/a
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Title: Reconstruction Drawing of the Hypostyle
Hall, Great Temple of Amun, Karnak. Nineteenth Dynasty,
C. 1292–1190 BCE
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Title: Flower and bud columns, hypostyle hall,
Great Temple of Amun. Karnak
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Title: Fish-Shaped Bottle
Medium: Core glass
Size: length 5⅛" (13 cm)
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1353–1336 BCE
Source/Museum: Akhetaten (present-day Tell el-Amarna)
/ The British Museum, London
Artist: n/a
Title: Hatshepsut Enthroned
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty
(ruled c. 1473–1458 BCE).
Source/Museum: Deir el-Bahri / The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
Artist: n/a
Title: Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir El-Bahri
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1473–1458 BCE(At the
far left, ramp and base of the funerary temple of
Mentuhotep III. Eleventh Dynasty, c. 2009–1997 BCE)
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Plan of the Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut,
Deir El-Bahri
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Artist: n/a
Title: Akhenaten, Colossal Figure
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Artist: n/a
Title: Akhenaten and His Family
Medium: Painted limestone relief
Size: 12¼ X 15¼" (31.1 X 38.7 cm)
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1353–1336 BCE
Source/Museum: Akhetaten (present-day Tell el-Amarna)
/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Ägyptisches Museum
Artist: n/a
Title: Queen Tiy
Medium: Boxwood, ebony, glass, silver, gold,
lapis lazuli, cloth, clay, and wax
Size: height 3 ¾" (9.4 cm)
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1352 BCE
Source/Museum: Kom Medinet el-Ghurab (near el-Lahun)
/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Ägyptisches Museum
Artist: n/a
Title: Nefertiti
Medium: Painted Limestone
Size: height 20" (51 cm)
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1353–1336 BCE
Source/Museum: Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna)
/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Ägyptisches Museum
Artist: n/a
Title: Inner Coffin of Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus
Medium: Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious
stones
Size: height 6'⅞" (1.85 m), weight nearly 243
pounds (110.4 kg)
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, 1332–1322 BCE
Source/Museum: Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the
Kings, near Deir el-Bahri / Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Artist: n/a
Title: Temple of Rameses II, at Abu Simbel
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: Nineteenth Dynasty, c. 1279–1213 BCE
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Temple of Rameses II (Left) and Nefertari
(Right), at Abu Simbel
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Size: n/a
Date: Nineteenth Dynasty, 1279–1213 BCE
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Detail of Nefertari and Ramses’s Leg
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Source/Museum: Temple of Ramses II
Artist: n/a
Title: Temple of Rameses II, Interior
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Date: Nineteenth Dynasty, c. 1279–1213 BCE
Source/Museum: Abu Simbel
Artist: n/a
Title: The Rosetta Stone
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Date: 196 BCE
Source/Museum: The British Museum, London
Artist: n/a
Title: Art and its Context: Hieroglyphic,
Hieratic, and Demotic Writing
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Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Hieroglyphic signs for the letters
P, T, O, and L, which were Champollion's clues to
deciphering the Rosetta Stone, plus M, Y, and S: Ptoymys
Artist: n/a
Title: Queen Nefertari Making an offering to
Isis
Medium: Wall painting
Size: n/a
Date: Nineteenth Dynasty, 1290–1224 BCE
Source/Museum: In the tomb of Nefertari, Valley
of the Queens, near Deir el-Bahri
Artist: n/a
Title: Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris
Medium: Painted papyrus
Size: height 15⅝" (39.8 cm)
Date: Nineteenth Dynasty, c. 1285 BCE
Source/Museum: Illustration From a Book of The
Dead. The British Museum, London
Artist: n/a
Title: Mummy wrapping of a young boy
Medium: Linen wrappings with gilded stucco
buttons and inserted portrait in encaustic on wood
Size: height of mummy 53⅜" (133 cm) portrait 9½ X
6½" (24 X 16.5 cm)
Date: Roman period, c. 100–120 CE
Source/Museum: Hawara / The British Museum,
London
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