Highlight- Egyptian Period

Question 1

Why was Egypt one of the great civilizations?

Answer 1

Egypt had the most influence upon western funeralization

Question 2

Who was Osiris? and what belief did he come with?

Answer 2

God of the dead and the judge of the underworld.. He believed in Polytheistic belief

Question 3

What did the Egyptian’s believe about the deceased?

Answer 3

attribute some life to the body lying in the grave, while believing at the same time that an element or aspect of the dead person resides elsewhere, apart from the grave… “Life after death”

Question 4

What was embalming considered during Egyptian period

Answer 4

Embalming was considered a religious ceremony

Question 5

What determined what kind of embalming an Egyptian received

Answer 5

social stratification

Question 6

what contained the internal organs

Answer 6

canopic jars

Question 7

What was the Focus of the universe from which all things originated and will return?

Answer 7

The sun

Question 8

the soul element

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BA

Question 9

the shining one element

Answer 9

Yakhu

Question 10

Who oversaw the embalming and funeralization

Answer 10

Kher-heb (priest)

Question 11

Who was the flesheater

Answer 11

Sarcophagus

Question 12

Who was man shaped

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Anthropoid

Question 13

The Egyptians pivoted around the idea that the complex elements that joined to make a person could be reassembled in the body of the dead

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Egyptian death beliefs

Question 14

1. The Ba
2. The Yakhu
3. The Name
4. The Shadow
5. The Heart
6. The Ka

Answer 14

Elements that of the death belief that a person could be reassembled in the body of the dead

Question 15

The heart element

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The seat of the intellect and emotions

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The Ka element

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Last element as it remained by the dead and demanded attention from the living.

Question 17

Central to the Egyptian concept of life after death was the belief in

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body resuscitation

Question 18

Among the oldest of Egyptian funeral ceremonies associated with offering the dead such as

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as cakes, oils, beer and wine.

Question 19

What is the great pyramids

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both memorials and tombs for the rulers of Egypt.

Question 20

Tomb chaplains or priests to whom the necessary ritualistic actions on behalf of the dead were delegated

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Egyptians Funerary customs

Question 21

Who was given the tasks of preparing and caring for the dead and how long did this last

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Pharaohs down to the least slave and 4000 years

Question 22

Combined with the religious motive, the concern of the ancient Egyptians for the proper disposal of the dead had to do with

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sanitary purposes

Question 23

Dry burial was to keep the products of putrefaction form

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seeping into the soil and generating the plague.

Question 24

bodies were shrouded in coarse cloth and laid upon beds of charcoal under 6-8 feet of sand on the edge of the great plain at Memphis and above the reach of the flooding nile

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Dry burial

Question 25

3 grades of embalming were used during the Egyptian times.

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1. High Ranking
2. Middle Class
3. Poor Class

Question 26

most elaborate and expensive process was used; the brain and viscera were removed, embalmed or preserved and placed in 4 canonic jars or burial vases

Answer 26

High ranking embalming grade

Question 27

Injecting cedar oil without evisceration. Body was laid in nature or natron for the prescribed period so that cedar oil could be absorbed in soft organs, flesh was dissolved in natron and was reduced to preserved skin and bones.

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Middle class embalming grade

Question 28

Comprised purging the intestines and soaking the body in a soda solution for 70 days. Use of bitumen or pitch was later developed and resulted in hard, black mummy that tended to last almost indefinitely.

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Poor class embalming grade

Question 29

Why were there Hieroglyphic inscriptions covered the exterior and were devoted to prayers, genealogies and religious magical texts

Answer 29

Help restoration of the body, reconstitute the person and to aid and give power to the dead in the afterlife

Question 30

1. Designer/painter
2. Dissector/anatomist
3. Pollinctor/apothecary
4. Embalmer/surgeon
5. Physician/Priest

Answer 30

Egyptian embalming distinct specialists