THE ART OF EGYPT

AMARNA

• Akhenaten- A pharaoh who commissioned many self portraits, including a colossal statue of himself
• Tiye - Tiye was the daughter of Yuya and Tjuyu. She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. She had a highly decorated sculpture of he face
• Nefertiti - widely considered to be the most beautiful women in egypt
• King Tut - the most famous pharaoh of egypt, had a highly decorative funerary mask

OLD KINGDOM

• Narmer - May have been Menes, first to rule the old kingdom (Narmer Palette)
• Stepped Pyramids - predecessors to the pyramids, had stepped sides resembles the ziggurats
• Pyramids of Giza - A large grouping a Egypt's most famous funerary structures
• Sphinx - A large statue near giza with the head of a man, but he body of a lion, meant to protect the tombs
• Khafre - A Pharaoh that built a valley temple and a self potrait for himself

OLD KINGOM (CONTD)

• Menkaure and Wife - A statue made of graywacke with traces of red, depicts menkaure and his wife.
• Seated Scribe - A statue made of limestone that depicts a seated scribe
• Ti (sculpture) - A life size sculpture of Ti was found in his tomb
• Ti (architecture) - The tomb of Ti is famous for the spectacular relief sculptures that line the walls, depicting various aspects of the egyptian underworld

MIDDLE KINGDOM

• Rock cut tombs - tombs that were literally carved out of the cliff fave
• Sensuret -A pharaoh whose statue seems to reflect that he was preoccupied and emotionally drained

NEW KINGDOM

• Karnak - A large temple complex that had lots of statues and decorated columns
• Hatepshet (temple) - A very impressive funerary complex that is cut from the rock face, has a central ramp lined with columned halls
• Hatepshet (statue) - Hatepshet's statues were depicted in all the ways that mens were, showing that women could rule

RAMSES II

• Ramses II - Ramses the second's most noted piece of art is probably the colossal statue that he built in his image, outside his tomb
• HuNefer - HuNefer was a scribe who was most famous for owning a copy of the egyptian book of the dead, also called the hunefer papyrus

VOCABULARY

• Armana - The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the latter half of the Eighteenth Dynasty
• Engaged column - a column that can support the weight of the roof above
• hieroglyphics - a type of picture writing used by the Egyptians
• hypostyle - a vast hall filled with columns
• in situ - in its original place

VOCABULARY (CONTD)

• ka mastaba - a flat topped, one story building with a burial chamber
• necropolis - a city of the dead
• papyrus - a type of paper that the Egyptians made from the reeds that grew along the nile
• pharaoh - a type of king that was perceived to be a god on earth
• pylon - two tapered columns

VOCABULARY (CONTD)

• reserve column - a column that doesn't actually support anything
• sarcophagus - a coffin
• relief - a type of statue that is carved out from a background
• register - a horizontal band of images that tell a story