Egypt Flashcards
Name: Djoser Relief
Date: Dynasty III
Location Found: Saqqara, Step Pyramid
Size: Height - 87cm Width - 59cm
Details:
- King of tiptoes.
- Rejuventation festival.
- White crown of Eygpt.
Name: Rows of Prisoners
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Tomb of Horemheb
Details:
- Icon of Asianatics
- Eyptians are presenting them to the King.
Name: A probable Akhenaton
Size: ht.-64cm wdth.-17.2cm
Material: Yellow Stone
Detail:
- Regal.
- Fat.
- Symmetry.
Name: Battle scene : Older (in white) and newer version.
Location: North Tower, West Wall.
Details:
- Artist changed their mind.
- Two registers.
- Old scene, with a charioteer.
- New scene, Pharoh is by himself.
- Against Hittites.
Name: Second Libyan War (“First Series) Battle.
Details:
- Want to settle in the north.
- Uncivilised nature of foreigners
- Egyptian fortress against a horde of Libyians.
Name: Punt - 1
Date: mid Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Hatshepsut
Details:
- Peacetime
- Trading
- Exotic animals.
Name: Royal Barges and Boats
Date: Middle to Late Amarna period
Location Found: Hermopolis
Size: ht.-23.9cm wdth.-54.2cm
Material: Limestone.
Name: Pepi I statue
Date: Dynasty VI (6)
Location Found: Saqqara
Current Location: Broklyn Museum
Size: 26.5cm
Details:
- Made of labastar
- Horus Falcon
- White crown of upper Eygpt.
- Symmetrical to an extreme.
- Symbols crossed over chest.
Name: Meket -re servants
Date: Late dynasty XI (11)
Location Found: Deirel Bahari, Western Thebes
Size: 112cm
Details:
- Models of daily life.
- Wood.
- Not a single carving.
Name: Smiting scene
Date: New Kingdom
Location Found: Great temple of Amun, Thebes
Details:
- Blocks of limestone.
- Base line seperating two scenes.
- Pharoh tiptoeing forward and is larger.
Name: Asiatic Scene
Location Found: Beni Hasan, Upper Egypt, Nome 16
Details:
- 37 Asiatics.
- Not Egyptian.
- Arriving by donkey.
- Coming from Palestine.
- Skin lighter than Epyptians.
Name: Statue of Mycerinus with Hathor and the goddess of the Jackal Nome
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Giza
Current Location: Ciaro Eyptian Museum
Size: 85cm tall
Details:
- Right - is the goddes, centre - King, Left - Mother and they are supporting the male.
- Clinging to each other which is typical of Eyptian.
- King is taller and is stepping forward indicating movement.
Name: Itet Wall relief
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Mastaba
Details:
- Limestone
- Harvesting
- Scenes of geese being caught.
Name: Envoys from Asia and Lybia
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Tomb of Horemheb
Details:
- Realism.
- Not captors from war.
Name: Rescue of Orontes.
Date: Early Ramesses II
Location: Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia
Details:
- Ramesses II is pushing Hittites.
- Set battle.
- Swimming across the river.
- King had lots of space.
- Strategic defeat.
Name: Statue of Prince Hemiunu
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Giza
Current Location: Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum
Size: Height - 155.5cm Width - 61.5cm
Details:
- Independence of human body, arms, legs, chest, etc.
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Name: Thutmose II battle scene 2
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Deir el Bahari, Western Thebes
Detail:
- Introduction of horses.
- Emphasis on archers
Name: Ramesses II, War scene at Dapur in central Syria
Date: Dynasty XIX (19)
Location Found: Western Thebes
Details:
- Pharoh trampling enemies.
- Movement like a photograph
- Three registers
Name: Narmer Palette
Date: Dynasty I
Location Found: Hierakonpolis
Current Location: Ciaro Museum Egypt
Size: Lenght- 44cm, Height - 63.5cm
Details:
- made of schist.
- averse and reverse.
- Left side
- Famous smiting scene.
- Enemy is not Eyptian
- Pharoh has Horus falcon symbol.
- Narmer is wearing white crown of Upper Egypt.
- Emeny name is Wash.
- Right side
- Top register Pharoh is wearing red crown of Lower Egypt, symbolising he is ruling more than one place.
- Accompained by two men of high rank.
- Going to see is bound and decapitated enemies.
- Bottom register
- Conquering power of the king is symbolised by a bull is directed to a walled and fortified town
Name: Luxor Undated Asia
Location: Ramesses II
Details:
- Poses by the horses are impossible.
- Body in motion. (Icon).
Name: Nebhepetre II
Date: Dynasty XI (11)
Location Found: Deirel Bahari, Western Thebes
Size: 56.5cm tall and 46.5cm long.
Details:
- Dominate Figure.
- Inimate relationship is seen which is typical feature of Egyptian art.
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Name: Spinning and weaving scene
Date: Mid Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Tomb of Khunmhoptep II, Beni Hasan
Size: 103cm long and 63cm high
Details:
- Fresco.
- Middle Egypt.
- No depth.
- Overlapping of women weaving and the women standing.
Name: Djoser statue
Date: Dynasty III (3)
Location Found: Saqqara, step pyramid complex
Current Location: Cairo Eyptian Museum
Height: 142cm
Details:
- Pharoh
- Painted limestone.
- Frontal position.
- No free space.
- Posture of dominance
Name: Stela of Djet
Date: Dynasty I
Location Found: Abydos
Current Location: Louvre
Size: 65cm in width , 143cm in height
Details:
- Raised relief
- Memorial for Pharoh Djet.
- Horus falcon not quite symmetrical.
Name:“Appointment” of High Preist of Amun
Date; Dynasty IX (9)
Location Found: Karnak
Details:
- Key event.
- Godly.
Name: Kemsit, Lady of Nebhepetre Montuhotep II
Date: Dynasty XI (11)
Location: Deirel Bahari, Western Thebes.
Size: 37.5cm tall
Details:
- Raised relief.
- Buried in cliff of Kings and Queens.
- Unifier of Egypt.
Name: Prince Khufukaf Relief
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Mastaba
Current Location: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Size: 76.2cm in width
Details:
- Limestone
- Loving nature expressed.
- Raised relief
Name: Tomb Nebamun
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Height: 61cm
Location Found: Western Thebes
Details:
- Slight movement.
- Two registers.
- Banquet with musicians and dancers
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Name: Pepi II Pyramid plan
Date: Dynasty VI (6)
Location Found: Saqqara
Size: Base dimension 74.7m2
Details:
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Name: Stela Block Statue
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Abydos
Size: 112cm tall, the statue is 43cm
Details:
- Compact statue.
- Insciptions above statue.
- 3 deminsional man.
Name: Two views of Peleshet/Philistine.
Location: Medinet Habu
Details:
- Foreigner northern sea people.
- Pirates.
- Settled in Gaza.
Name: Second Libyan War (“Second Series”) Battle.
Details:
- Land battle.
Name: Amenemhet I
Location Found: Lisht
Size: 14cm tall
Details:
- Almond shaped eyes.
- Cutting in of the face.
- Unified kingdoms.
- Wants to represent something different.
- Aspect do not adhere to characterisitcs of this dynasty
Name: Gallery of Lists/Kings 1
Location: Abydos, Temples of Seti I and Ramesses II
Details:
- List of all ancient kings of Egypt.
Name: Right - Sesostris III, Left - Amenemhet III
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Aswan
Details:
- Left.
- About to say something.
- The jaw is emphasised.
- Diorite.
- Right
- Basalt.
Name: Hesyre panel I
Date: Dynasty III (3)
Location Found: Saqqara, in a private tomb
Current Location: Cairo
Size: 114cm
Details:
- Wood.
- Raised relief.
- Background removed.
- Two registers
- Hierogyphs name him.
Name: Sesostris III
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Size: 32cm tall 34cm wide
Details:
- Tiredness is shown through sunken eyes.
- Manfighting for his kingdom.
- Lips are a personal aspect.
- Carvings bring out side of face.
Name: Relief of King and Queen
Date: Late Amarna
Location Found: Memphis
Size: ht.-24.7cm wdth.-20.2cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- Curved back.
- Protrusive belly on the man.
- Stance indicates whether figure is male or female.
- More regular as it is late in the Amarna period.
Name: Thutmose IV Chariot
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Royal tomb, Valley of Kings , Thebes
Details:
- King is idealised but is ready to fight.
- Battle between two forces of elite troops.
- Enemy is unorganised, Egyptian are organised.
Name: Statue of Rahotep and Nofret
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Meidum
Current Location: Cairo Eygptian Museum
Size: 121cm and 122cm tall
Details:
- Women has a lighter skin tone and her white dress makes her almost blend in with the chair.
- Names on back of chair.
- This were not to be seen or worshipped.
- Position of his arms represent statue of Djoser.
Name: Meidum pyramid
Date: Dynasty III/IV
Location Found: Meidum
Size: base dimension 144m2
Details:
- Shows “collaspe”
Name: Aged Man
Date: post Amarna
Location Found: Saqqara
Size: ht.-20.3cm wdth.-50cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- Dipiction of an old man is unique.
- Effects of Amarna art remains.
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Name: Battle of Kadesh - 1
Date: Early Ramesses II
Location Found: Aby Simbel (Lower Nubia)
Details:
- big scene, across 5 temples.
Name: Statue of Chephren
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Giza
Current Location: Cairo Egyptian Museum
Size: 172cm
Details:
- Protected by a Horus Falcon
- Detailed facial features
- Symbol of unification is carved in the base.
- Well portioned
Name: Early Akhenaton Block
Size: ht.-23cm wdth.-53cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- Traces of red paint.
- Narrative.
- No other dieties.
- Worshipping the sun god.
Name: Colossus of Akhenation - 1
Location Found: Karnak
Size: ht. 396cm
Material: Sandstone
Details:
- No genitals.
- Figure A-typical of everyones depiction of him.
Name: Hermopolis Block - 1
Date: Late Dynasty 18
Location Found: Amarna
Size: ht.-23.9cm wdth. 51.5cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- Princess
- High point of Egyptian Art
- Amarna art
Name: Beit el Wali Scenes -1
Date: Early Ramesses II
Location Found: Lower Nubia
Details:
- Depictions of a fortress.
- Relaxed bow.
- Pharoh does not go on and fight the city.
Name: Block statue
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Saqqara
Details:
- Left
- Old Kingdom.
- False tomb.
- Right
- God of afterworld.
- Set up in private tomb.
- Cathonic aspect - Rising from the ground.
- Cult/Religion of the non-royals.
Name: Punt - 2
Date: mid dynasty 18
Location Found: Hatshepsut
Details:
- Queen of Punt.
Name: Mereruka with sons
Date: Dynasty VI (6)
Location Found: Mastaba
Size: Lenght -272cm Height - 203cm
Details:
- Hieroglyphs are from different artists and not as raised as the people.
- Scene depicting either coming out of the underworld as ka led by his sons.
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Name: Statue of Ranefer
Date: Mid dynasty V (5)
Location Found: Saqqara
Current Location: Ciaro Eyptian Museum
Size: 182.9cm
Details:
- Painted limestone.
- Left foot forward, right foot back.
- Sense of movement that he is going to march
- Meant for offerings.
Name: Two early images of Neferity
Location: Karnak
Details:
- Sandstone.
- New style.
- Proportions are wrong.
- Ray of sun god.
- King had control of all art.
Name: Sea People’s War: Sea Encounter (D)
Location: Medinet Habu
Details:
- Large Pharah icon.
- Peculiar headdress, its from Palestine.
- Ships are different.
- First dark ages.
Name:Seti I Karnak Monument: East 2B
Details:
- First year Seti I reigned as king.
- Thick forest on left.
- Open landscape on right.
- A coastal region with a city.
Name: Statue of Djoser
Date: Dynasty III
Location Found: Saqqara
Current Location: Ciaro Eygptian Museum
Size: 142cm
Details:
- Limestone.
- Inscriptions are in front on the base.
- Little to no expression
Name: Scenes of Merenptahs Canaanite War.
Details:
- Semi-Nomads.
- Fear of blindess.
- Depressions of handprints.
Name: Scene in chapel of Osris
Location: Chapel of Osris
Details:
- inscence burning.
- Raised relief.
- Blue is an icon colour (shows the person is dead).
Name: Procession at festival of Amun
Date: Dynasty XX (20)
Location Found: Medinet Habu
Detail:
- Shaven heads and decorative garments.
Name: Stela of Inhurnakht
Date: Early Dynasty XI (11)
Location Found: Naga Ed Deir
Current Location: British Museum
Size: 77cm tall
Details:
- Cut into stone
- Representation of rich garments
Name: Resurrection of Osiris
Location: Chapel of Sokar, North Wall.
Details:
- Connections to cult of Isis.
- Recognisable scene.
Name: Unas Famine relief
Date: Dynasty V (5)
Location Found: Saqqara
Details:
- Shrunken chest and waists
- Living on the boarders of Egypt
- Against decorum
- Oppisite side of life depicted.
Name: Sesostris I
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Coptos, Upper Egypt, Nome 5
Size: 140 x 103cm
Details:
- Good example of raised relief.
- Opposed to Old Kingdom.
Name: Stela of Amenysoneb
Date: Dynasty XIII (13)
Location Found: Abydos
Size: 51 x 35cm
Details:
- Two sides.
- Limestone.
- Harvesting scenes.
- Scenes of his life.
- For his false tomb
Name: Stela of Indy
Date: Late Dynasty VIII (8)
Location Found: Thinis
Current Location: Metropolitan Musem of art
Size: 71.12cm
Details:
- Portion are off.
- Centralised monarchy has ended and it is a time of warfare.
- Simple offering scene
Name: Sesostris I kiosk
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Karnak
Size: 6.8 m long 4.8m high
Details:
- Limestone was imported from the North.
- Re-used in dynasty 18.
- Royal document.
Name: Seti I Karnak Monument: East 2A
Details:
- Attack on Yenoam.
- These are not barbarians.
- Must be regarded as the top of the foriegn hierachy.
- Enemy has horses and shields.
Name: Sea Peoples’ War - 1
Date: Ramesses III
Location Found: Medinet Habu, western Thebes
Details
- First recorded sea battle.
- There are Aegean ships.
Name: General Battle
Details:
- Shows attack of Egyptian camp.
- In four divisions.
Name: Bull Lassoing Scene.
Location: Abydos, Corridor of the bull, North wall.
Details:
- Sunken relief.
Name: Head of a Man
Date: Late dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Tomb of Ramose, Western Thebes
- Details:*
- No space for background
- Facing profile with frontal eye.
- Linean garment.
- Shoulders are frontal.
- Lotus flower on the left.
- Raised relief.
Name:Comparison of Hunting Lions with Chariot Warfare
Date:Ramesses III
Location Found: Medinet Habu
Details:
- Lion screaming in pain.
- Impossible positions.
Name: Djoser Step Pyramid
Date: Dynasty II
Location Found: Saqqara
Details:
- First real pyramid.
- connected to the sun god ra.
- 6 steps
- Enclosed by walls.
- Mostly reconstucted
Name: Neferititi Bust
Date: Middle to Late Amarna
Size: ht. 58.8cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- Original paint.
Name: Royal Family
Date: Amarna Period
SIze: ht.-32.5cm wdth.-38.7cm
Material: Limestone
Detail:
- Lively.
- Curves of the body indicate life.
- King, Queen and 3 daughters.
Name: Scorpion Macehead
Date: Dynasty 0
Location Found: Upper Egypt, Nome 3, Hierakonpolis
Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Size: 32.5cm in height and 29.5cm in diametre.
Details:
- Historical Narrative depictions.
- Canals used as a base line.
- Birds on the upper register represent followers.
- Pharoh is identified by a scorpion.
- Doesn’t fulfill canon and porportions
Name: Amenemhet II Spinx
Location Found: Moved to Tanis
Size: 208cm tall 485cm long
Details:
- Desired aspects pf Pharoh in order to emphasise certain qualities of ruler.
- Not a true representation.
- Represent Pharoh as triumphant and heavy brow indicate intelligence.
Name: Two early Akhenaton Blocks
Location Found: Karnak
Material: Sandstone
Detail:
- Change in human form.
- Rasied Relief.
- Sun god only reaches royal family.
- Disk with Ankh signs around it.
Name: Sarcophagi of 2 ladies of Nebhepetre Montuhotep II
Date: Dynasty XI (11)
Location: Deirel Bahari, Western Thebes
Details:
- Sunken Releif.
- Limestone.
- Opposed to North and Centralised kingdom.
- Dog beneath the chair is always represented this way.
Name: Luxor Undated Asia, Top left 3
Location Found: Ramesses II
Details:
- Egyptian troops with mercenaries are attacking.
- Man with the brazer is what didicating to his god.
Name: Luxor Undated Asia, Bottom RIght 5
Location Found: Ramesses II
Details:
- Devastion scene.
- City destroyed by Eygptian troops.
Name:Seti I Karnak Monument: West 4A
Details:
- Equal if not superior in terms of chariot warfare and foot soldiers.
- Battle in North Syria over disputed territory.
Name: Statues Khasekhemuy
Date: Dynasty II
Location Found: Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt
Current Location: Left - Ashmolean Museum Right - Cairo Eyptian Museum
Size: Left - 62cm Right - 56cm
Details:
- Both statues sitted on a throne with a low back, wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt.
- Identified by the Kings Horus name by the Kings feet.
Name: Sun Temple of Niuserre
Date: Dynasty V (5)
Location Found: Abu Gurob
Details:
Name: Hermopolis Block - 2
Location Found: Hermopolis but originally from Amarna
Size: ht.-22.8cm wdth. -53.5cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- State chariot.
- Horse is in a frontal position.
- No canon proportion as it ends in this period (Amarna art)
Name: Hermopolis Block - 3
Location Found: Hermopolis but was moved from Amarna
Size: ht.-22cm wdth.- 53.5cm
Material: Limestone
Details:
- 2 sisters.
- Youngest has a side lock of youth.
- Style is very femine.
- Intimacy is shown.
Name: South Wall Scene of Tomb of Tslanhamun
Location Found: Valley of Kings, Western Thebes
Details:
- Raised Relief
- Rear end and curved back and bulging body still present.
- Porportions off.
- Return to othodoxy.
- Stance is more natural.
Name: Stela of Tjety
Date: Dynasty XI (11)
Location Found: Western Thebes
Current Location: British Museum
Size: 152cm tall
Details:
- Theban aspects
- Biography seperate from images
- Suken relief top register and bottom relief bottom register
- Stressing value of clothing
Name: Statue of Mycerinus and wife
Date: Dynasty IV (4)
Location Found: Giza
Current Location: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Size: 142.2cm tall
Details:
- Emotional attachment.
- Detail of realism.
- Funeral offerings, not meant to be worshipped.
Name: Sestostris II
Date: Dynasty XII (12)
Location Found: Aquired in Menphite area
Size: 32cm tall
Details:
- Fourth King of dynasty 12
Name: Relief of Sahure 4
Date: Dynasty V (5)
Location Found: Mortuary temple, Abusir
Details:
- An account of a war against Libyia.
- different directions show movement.
Name: Sea people’s war: Land Battle Encounter (C)
Location: Medinet Habu
Details:
- Marching into battle.
- Pharoh big size is an icon of Egyptian art.
- Round shields = Sea people.
- Invader want to settle which is a huge threat to Egypt.
Name: Statue of Pepi II with Queen Mother
Date: Dynasty VI (6)
Current Location: Brooklyn Museum
Size: 39.2cm
Details:
- Mother is bigger with Pharoh on her lap could indicate she was Queen regent until Pepi II was of age. This size difference is significant.
- Vulture headdress as a symbol of her position as Queen.
Name: Stela of Inyotef II
Date: Mid Dynasty X (11)
Location Found: Western Thebes
Current Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Size: 43cm tall
Details:
- Limestone
- King offering
Name: Royal Reception and Rewards
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Tomb of Horemheb
Details:
- King is Tutankhamun
- Curved backs are iconic
- Horemheb lived under more than one Pharoh.
Name: Head of a Princess
Location Found: Amarna
Size: ht.-15cm wdth.-11cm
Material: Quartzite
Details:
- eyes and eyebrows lost.
- elongated head.
Name: Amunhotep II blocks
Date: Dynasty XVIII (18)
Location Found: Karnak
Material: Limestone
Details:
- Captors behind and in front (Asiatics)
- Top.
- Smiting Scene.
- Not hostile as bow isnt strung.
- Idealised - The Pharoh is doing everything himself.
Name: Seti I Karnak Monument: West 5B
Details:
- Defeat of Libyans.
