Egyptian Art

Question 1

Answer 1

“Palette of King Narmer”

Egyptian: Pre-dynastic

Hierakonpolis, Egypt

3000 BCE

material: slate *

23 inches *

Question 2

Answer 2

“The Great Sphinx”

Egyptian, 4^th Dynasty

Gizeh, Egypt

2520-2494 BCE

material: sandstone *

65 feet x 240 feet *

Question 3

Answer 3

“Menkaure and queen”

Egyptian, Old Kingdom

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2490-2472 BCE

material: greywacke *

5 feet tall *

1492.1 pounds *

Question 4

Answer 4

“Seated Scribe”

Egyptian, 4^th Dynasty

The Louvre, Paris

2500 BCE

material: painted limestone *

1 foot 9 inches *

Question 5

Answer 5

“Prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret”

Old Kingdom Egypt

Egyptian Museum of Cairo

2580 BCE

material: painted limestone *

47.25 inches tall *

Question 6

Answer 6

“Nebamun fowling in the marshes”

Egyptian, 18^th Dynasty

The British Museum

1350 BCE

material: paint on plaster *

83 x 98 cm *

Tomb-chapel of Nebamun *

Question 7

Answer 7

“Akhenaten and Nefertiti and their children”

Egyptian, 18^th Century

1349 BCE

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

material: limestone relief *

Question 8

Answer 8

“Bust of Nefertiti”

New Kingdom Egypt

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

1348-1336 BCE

material: painted limstone with inlaid eyes *

19.5 inches *

Question 9

Answer 9

“King Tut”

Egyptian, New Kingdom

Egyptian Museum Cairo, Egypt

1336-1327 BCE

materials: gold inlaid with glass and semi-precious stones *

(lapis lazuli, obsidian, turquoise) *

21.25 inches *

24 pounds *

Question 10

Answer 10

“The Rosetta Stone”

Ptolemaic Period

The British Museum

196 BCE

112.3 x 75.7 x 28.4 cm *

discovered in Egypt @ Fort St. Julien in el-Rashid, known as Rosetta *