Exam II Items and what

Question 1

Aegis,

Answer 1

3rd Intermediate Period (1069-716 BCE) Collar-like necklace bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and fertility. Usually, a lion or a cat.

Question 2

Changes in Anthropoid Coffin Decoration.

Answer 2

New scheme imitated gold and colored inlay, and exceptional coffins coffins used gold rather than paint.

Question 3

Double Uraeus

Answer 3

Late Period Egypt (716-332 BCE) Adoption/adaptation of egyptian iconography and motifs by Nubian Rulers

Question 4

Pyramid architecture in Kush

Answer 4

Late Period Egypt (716-332 BCE) Tall, slender pyramids

Question 5

Late period stone sarcophagus

Answer 5

Late period (716-332). Had not been used in private burials since New Kingdom, and came back into fashion.

Question 6

Isis Knot

Answer 6

Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE). Aka the Tyet, came to symbolize the goddess Isis.

Question 7

Horace of the Crocodiles

Answer 7

Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE). Magical stelai used to cure.

Question 8

Iconography of Imhotep

Answer 8

Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE).

Question 9

Overarching theme of Ptolemaic Egypt

Answer 9

Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE), fusion of egyptian and Hellenistic (greek-ish) motifs!

Question 10

Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Relationship between EGyptian royals and roman emperors?

Answer 10

Roman emperors adopted royal iconography from Egypt.

Question 11

Fayum portrait

Answer 11

Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE) naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. Encaustic were higher quality, and made of wax, while lower quality ones were tempera.

Question 12

Garlands?

Answer 12

Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Garlands were used as symbols of justification/resurrection.

Question 13

Painted/gilded mummy masks

Answer 13

Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Fayum portrait style. Not much more to say?

Question 14

Depiction of the Kandake

Answer 14

Kingdom of Kush (656 BCE-350 CE). Woman with outstreched arms. Kandake was the queen.

Question 15

Kush funerary architecture

Answer 15

Kingdom of Kush (656 BCE- 350 CE). Emulated the Egyptians by burying their dead royalty in pyramids.

Question 16

Coptic Textiles

Answer 16

Byzantine Egypt (395-641 CE)

Question 17

Coptic stone carvings

Answer 17

Byzantine Egypt (395-641 CE) Used polytheist symbols within a Christian context

Question 18

Ptah

Answer 18

Creator God, and god of wisdom, pottery, craftsmanship

Question 19

Bestet

Answer 19

goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. usually depicted as a cat, so. ya know. there’s that.

Question 20

Bes

Answer 20

protector god of pregnant women and children. He is regularly depicted as a dwarf with large ears, long-haired and bearded, with prominent genitals, and bow-legged.

Question 21

Stamp seal

Answer 21

Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). Used for royal business, I assume.

Question 22

Cylinder seal

Answer 22

Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). A cylinder that you could roll onto a clay surface to seal

Question 23

Proto-Cuneiform Writing

Answer 23

Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE).

Question 24

Cone Mosaics

Answer 24

Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE).

Question 25

Processions of Offering Bearers/ In registers

Answer 25

Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). Probably found in a funerary temple. Served same function as statues, etc.

Question 26

Perforated Plates

Answer 26

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). Low relief carving, made of a soft stone like limestone, and had a sculpted narrative.

Question 27

Worshiper figurines

Answer 27

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). These statues embodied the very essence of the worshipper so that the spirit would be present when the physical body was not.

Question 28

Imdugud Motif

Answer 28

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). Imdugud was depicted as a massive bird who can breathe fire and water, although Imdugud is alternately depicted as a lion-headed eagle.

Question 29

Libation vessels

Answer 29

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). Ya know. Drinking. LMAO

Question 30

Sacred Architecture

Answer 30

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). The ziggurat was the base on which the white temple was set, and these were said to connect heaven and Earth.

Question 31

Kaunake

Answer 31

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). An article of clothing similar to a skirt, made of wool. This was worn by the ELITES.

Question 32

Foundation nails

Answer 32

Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). inscribed with cuneiform, baked, and stuck into the mud-brick walls to serve as evidence that the temple or building was the divine property of the god to whom it was dedicated.

Question 33

Akkadian Practices?

Answer 33

Akkadian Period (2340-2159 BCE) Use of Sumerian Ritual practices outside of Sumeria.

Question 34

Really nice foundation pegs/figurines

Answer 34

Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE).

Question 35

King as worshipper

Answer 35

Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE). The king would be depicted as a worshiper and wearing a wool cap.

Question 36

Overflowing vessel, tunic with decorated border

Answer 36

Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE).

Question 37

King carrying basket of mud

Answer 37

Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE).

Question 38

Kudurru

Answer 38

Kassite Dynasty of Babylon (1595-1157 BCE). Boundary Stone! Used to grant land to vassals and mark land boundaries.

Question 39

Sin, Ishtar, Shamash

Answer 39

Three Babylonian gods, represented by the moon, an eight-pointed star, and a solar disc with cardinal points, respectively.

Question 40

Pointed Caps

Answer 40

Old Hittite Empire (1400 -1200 BCE).

Question 41

Lamassu

Answer 41

Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE). a Sumerian protective deity, often depicted as having a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings.

Question 42

Apkallu

Answer 42

Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE).

Seven demi-gods, sometimes described as part man and part fish, associated with human wisdom; these creatures are often referred to in scholarly literature as the Seven Sages.

Question 43

Tree of Life Motif

Answer 43

Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE).
The Assyrian tree of life was represented by a series of nodes and criss-crossing lines. It was apparently an important religious symbol, often attended to in Assyrian palace reliefs by human or eagle-headed winged genies, or the King, and blessed or fertilized with bucket and cone.

Question 44

Proskynesis

Answer 44

Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE). the traditional Persian act of bowing or prostrating oneself before a person of higher social rank.

Question 45

Lion Hunt

Answer 45

Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE). An activity that had been depicted with kings (kings would do it.) There may have been a religious dimension to the activity.

Question 46

Glazed Brick Decoration

Answer 46

Neo-Babylonian Empire (625-539 BCE).