Exam II Items and what Flashcards
Aegis,
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.
Changes in Anthropoid Coffin Decoration.
New scheme imitated gold and colored inlay, and exceptional coffins coffins used gold rather than paint.
Double Uraeus
Late Period Egypt (716-332 BCE) Adoption/adaptation of egyptian iconography and motifs by Nubian Rulers
Pyramid architecture in Kush
Late Period Egypt (716-332 BCE) Tall, slender pyramids
Late period stone sarcophagus
Late period (716-332). Had not been used in private burials since New Kingdom, and came back into fashion.
Isis Knot
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE). Aka the Tyet, came to symbolize the goddess Isis.
Horace of the Crocodiles
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE). Magical stelai used to cure.
Iconography of Imhotep
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE).
Overarching theme of Ptolemaic Egypt
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE), fusion of egyptian and Hellenistic (greek-ish) motifs!
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Relationship between EGyptian royals and roman emperors?
Roman emperors adopted royal iconography from Egypt.
Fayum portrait
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.
Garlands?
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Garlands were used as symbols of justification/resurrection.
Painted/gilded mummy masks
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Fayum portrait style. Not much more to say?
Depiction of the Kandake
Kingdom of Kush (656 BCE-350 CE). Woman with outstreched arms. Kandake was the queen.
Kush funerary architecture
Kingdom of Kush (656 BCE- 350 CE). Emulated the Egyptians by burying their dead royalty in pyramids.
Coptic Textiles
Byzantine Egypt (395-641 CE)
Coptic stone carvings
Byzantine Egypt (395-641 CE) Used polytheist symbols within a Christian context
Ptah
Creator God, and god of wisdom, pottery, craftsmanship
Bestet
goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. usually depicted as a cat, so. ya know. there’s that.
Bes
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.
Stamp seal
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). Used for royal business, I assume.
Cylinder seal
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). A cylinder that you could roll onto a clay surface to seal
Proto-Cuneiform Writing
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE).
Cone Mosaics
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE).
Processions of Offering Bearers/ In registers
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). Probably found in a funerary temple. Served same function as statues, etc.
Perforated Plates
Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). Low relief carving, made of a soft stone like limestone, and had a sculpted narrative.
Worshiper figurines
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.
Imdugud Motif
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.
Libation vessels
Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). Ya know. Drinking. LMAO
Sacred Architecture
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.
Kaunake
Sumerian Period (2900-2270 BCE). An article of clothing similar to a skirt, made of wool. This was worn by the ELITES.
Foundation nails
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.
Akkadian Practices?
Akkadian Period (2340-2159 BCE) Use of Sumerian Ritual practices outside of Sumeria.
Really nice foundation pegs/figurines
Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE).
King as worshipper
Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE). The king would be depicted as a worshiper and wearing a wool cap.
Overflowing vessel, tunic with decorated border
Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE).
King carrying basket of mud
Neo-Sumerian Period (2112-2004 BCE).
Kudurru
Kassite Dynasty of Babylon (1595-1157 BCE). Boundary Stone! Used to grant land to vassals and mark land boundaries.
Sin, Ishtar, Shamash
Three Babylonian gods, represented by the moon, an eight-pointed star, and a solar disc with cardinal points, respectively.
Pointed Caps
Old Hittite Empire (1400 -1200 BCE).
Lamassu
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.
Apkallu
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.
Tree of Life Motif
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.
Proskynesis
Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE). the traditional Persian act of bowing or prostrating oneself before a person of higher social rank.
Lion Hunt
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.
Glazed Brick Decoration
Neo-Babylonian Empire (625-539 BCE).
