Past Paper Questions Flashcards
What evidence is there for ports-of-trade associated with the Phenician expansion to the Central and Western Mediterranean between 900-700 BC?
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Discuss the evolution of anthropoid coffins during the New Kingdom
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Discuss the private tombs of the Old Kingdom
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Discuss the royal tombs of the Third Intermediate Period
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Discuss the development of funerary books used in private burials
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Discuss the evolution of the shabti figure
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Discuss New Kingdom royal mortuary temples
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In what ways is the reign of Senwosret III significant in the history of Egyptian funerary monuments?
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What elements and items went to make up the idea tomb for a Theban noble in the New Kingdom? How do they fit into the overall context of Egyptian funerary archaeology?
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What is the significance of the orientations of the various elements of Egyptian tombs?
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Assess the place of the funerary monuments of Hatsheput in the overall context of royal tomb development during the New Kingdom
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Give an overview of the development of royal funerary monuments during the Old Kingdom: how far do they reflect changes in conceptions of the king’s posthumous destiny, and how far are they simply a case of architectural evolution?
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The Amarna Period is a fault line in the evolution of the funerary monuments of the New Kingdom: discuss.
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Can we talk of a single, homogenous Minoan-Mycenaean religion?
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Discuss the evidence for the invocation of deities in the iconography of the Aegean Bronze Age
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How important were temples for the religions of ancient Greece?
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Discuss private tombs of the New Kingdom
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Discuss the evolution of the funerary mask
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Discuss Old Kingdom royal mortuary temples
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What elements and items went to make up the ideal tomb for a noble in the Old Kingdom? How do they fit into the overall context of Egyptian funerary archaeology?
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Give an overview of the development of royal funerary monuments during the first three dynasties: how far might they reflect changes in conceptions of the king’s posthumous destiny, and how far are they simply a case of architectural ‘evolution’
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What can Linear A and Linear B inscriptions tell us about the extent of literacy in the Aegean Bronze Age?
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What processes underlie the ‘Minoanization’ of the Aegean in the Neopalatial period?
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What were the effects of the Thera/Santorini eruption on the development f Minoan society?
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What are the current hypothesis to explain the Pheonician expansion to the western Mediterranean from 900-700 BC?
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Discuss tombs of the Early Dynastic Period
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Discuss the royal tombs of the Middle Kingdom
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Discuss the changes in the practice of mummification down to the end of the Third Intermediate Period
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Describe the development of royal coffins and sarcophagi during the Eighteenth Dynasty
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Discuss the evolution of the royal mortuary temple
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Discuss the New Kingdom rock cut private tombs at Thebes
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Give an overview of the history of the Thebes necropolis
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Give an overview of the history of the Saqqara necropolis
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Give an overview of the Abydos necropolis
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Why has the Bronze Age civilization of Crete been dubbed ‘Minoan’?
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Discuss the objects famously worn by Sophia Schliemann
-Jewellery dubbed ‘Priam’s Treasure’, excavated by her husband Henry Schliemann in the 19th century at Hisarlik, Turkey/Anatolia, thought to be the site of Troy. Named after a Homeric King, although the site and the Jewels have now both been found to be too early to fit in with Homer’s stories of Troy.
Discuss boar tusk helmets
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Who was the architect of the first pyramid?
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Name two of the protective goddesses of the dead
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Who was the architect of the first tomb to be built in the Valley of the Kings?
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Name one proposed meaning of the rishi coffin
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Where was the first ‘yellow’ coffin apparently made?
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At which site were the last pyramids in the Egyptian tradition built?
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Which was the earleist of the ‘Books of the Underworld’ to appear on a burial chamber wall?
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What is unusual about some tomb-chapels at Beni Hasan?
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Name the three elements of the ideal Egyptian tomb
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What is distinctive about the substructures of early/mid 19th Dynasty private tombs at Thebes?
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Which king appears to have built up to ten pyramids?
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Which letter describes the shape of a typical New Kingdom tomb chapel?
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Who was the last king to rule the whole of Egypt to build a pyramid?
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What elements and items went to make up the ideal tomb for a noble in the Old Kingdom? How do they fit into the overall context of Egyptian funerary archaeology?
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How do the royal tombs of the Third Intermediate Period relate to those of the New Kingdom?
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Whose tomb was identified during the Middle Kingdom as that of Osiris?
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Which organ was under the guardianship of Qebehsenuef?
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Who was the architect of the first pyramid?
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Who was the first king of Egypt to be buried away from Abydos?
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Which area comprised the highest status burial place at Thebes during the latter part of the Third Intermediate Period?
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Compare and contrast the offering places of Archaic, Old Kingdom and New Kingdom tombs and funerary complexes
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Who were the Minoans?
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Why have some scholars considered the term ‘palace’ problematic as applied to certain Minoan building?
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Name two types of hieroglyph other than alphabetic
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Name two of the four sons of Horus
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What was the title of the publication by the scholars of Bonaparte’s Egyptian expedition?
-Description De L’Egypte, 1809
What is happening to the floor level of an Egyptian temples as one proceeds towards the sanctuary?
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Name two of the Egyptian funerary texts or books
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What are the two fundamental elements that comprise an ideal Egyptian tomb?
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What are the magical servants of the dead known as?
Shabtis
Who were the parents of the last ancient king of independent Egypt
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Which Ptolemaic priest set out the dynastic structure used to arrange Egypt’s kings?
Manetho?
Which king re-unified Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate Period
Mentuhotep II
What was the first capital of the united Egypt?
Memphis
What are the two terms used for a town mound in Egypt?
Tell, Tepe, Huyuk
Name two of the pre-Ptolemaic King Lists
Turin and Seti I (Karnak)
Name two of the creatures into which the sun-god Re transmogrified during his daily cycle?
Dung beetle, Falcon (?), Ram
Which Upper Egyptian village gives its name to a prehistoric culture?
Naqada
What was the ancient name of the capital of the Twelfth Dynasty kings
Itjtawi
Which battle was particularly important for Rameses II?
Qadesh
What was the profession of all three of Tutankamun’s successors?
Generals
What was the principal national capital of the Third Intermediate Period?
Tanis
Which British bishop travelled to Egypt in the 18th century?
Pococke
Which tributary of the Nile feeds the Fayoum?
Bahr Yusef
Who led the great Prussian expedition?
Lepsius
Which king is particularly associated with the Second Cataract forts?
Senwosret II
Which was the capital of the Ninth/Tenth Dynasty?
Herakleopolis
Name the victor of the civil wars of the late Second Dynasty
Djoser
Name the longest reigning king of Egyptian history
Pepy II
What Nubian culture was one of the foes of the Egyptian kings of the Second Intermediate Period?
Kerma
What is the significance of the Island of Bigeh?
The Nile is believed to (mythologically) stem from underneath this Island. A creature known as Harpi lives here, which is the physical manifestation of the inundation of the Nile
Pros and Cons of the Inundation?
Too low - Cannot water crops, silt which normally is dispersed on fields after the inundation is not deposited, leading to famine
Too high- flooding, destruction of houses and crops, massive infrastructure damage
In what ways were the heights of the Nile measured and recorded
- Annals
- Palermo Stone and other king lists
- Nileometers e.g. Temple of Karnak, Aswan
Who built a temple at Deir el-Bahari?
Hatsheput
Which ruler had the Rosetta Stone made?
Ptolemy V
Who was the first native Egyptian Professor of Egyptology?
Selim Hassan
Who founded the Egyptian Antiquites Service?
Mariette
Which English physicist was involed in deciphering the Rosetta Stone?
Thomas Young
Name the first Egyptian Egyptologist
Ahmed Kamal
Which novelist played a key role in the foundation of the Egypt Exploration Fund?
Amelia Edwards
To which Dynasty does Khufu belong
4th
Which of these professions was NOT pursued by Belzoni?
Prize fighter. He was a strongman, engineer and excavator.
In which decade were hieroglyphs finally deciphered?
1820s, by Young but mostly Champillion
Where is the last known ancient hieroglyphic inscription?
Philae
Who was responsible for most of the rock cut temples of Nubia?
Rameses II
Which dynasty has all but one king called Amenemhat or Senwosret?
12th
Who was the last native ruler of Egypt?
Nektanebo II
Where did the ancient Egyptians believe that the Inundation originated
Bigeh Island, Aswan
What were the key differences between the decoration of tomb-chapels of the period before Akhenaten and those constructed after his death?
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Which king was the last one known to have been buried in a rishi coffin?
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What was the earliest of the Books of the Underworld to appear on a burial chamber wall?
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Which king’s funerary complex was inspired by that of Djoser?
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Which area comprised the highest status burial place at Thebes during the first part of the Third Intermediate Period
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In which dynasty are the internal organs first known to have been placed in canopic containers
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Which king introduced an entrance staircase to the royal tomb?
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Who was the last king to build a tomb at Abydos?
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Discuss the evidence for the existence of a monotheistic religion in Bronze Age Crete, and the reasons why this notion continues to appeal
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