Significant Architectural Details Flashcards
Mastaba, Pyramid, Sphinx, Rock-cut Tombs, Temples
Also called “Bench tomb”
Mastaba
What is the interior of mastabas made to stimulate?
Ancient Egypt residence
Regulated mound containing small rooms covering a board pit
Mastaba
Formed from wooden or crude mudbrick pillars > Covered in rubble > Walled in mud bricks
Building process of a Mastaba
Who’s mastabas are highly colored and decorated?
Royalty
Usually located on eastern side of tomb, facing the Nile river. Believed to guide the spirit of the dead inside the mastaba
Fake Door
the period when they developed stairway mastaba because of tomb raiders
2nd and 3rd Dynasty
The period when they developed a small offering chapel in the mastaba
4th Dynasty
The period when the offering room/chapel became more elaborate
5th and 6th Dynasty
Less rooms than the mastaba, usually made to confuse tomb robbers
Solid Dummy Mastaba
The place where the sarcophagus/mummy case is located
Mastaba Reproducing House
Where deceased member of the family is buried (Mastaba)
Serdab
Offerings are placed here (Mastaba)
Outer Chamber
Important elements of a Mastaba
Entrance, Court, Serdabs, Offering room
Burial Chamber & Mummy of the Pharaoh
Inspired by the mastaba
Pyramids
How they raise stone blocks from one level to another
Pivoted levers
Burial at the Pyramid Complex: Where the ceremony starts
Nile River
Burial at the Pyramid Complex: (Second phase) where they pass through for purification
Valley Temple
Burial at the Pyramid Complex: Third phase
Travel through the causeway
Burial at the Pyramid Complex: Fourth Phase
Go through the mortuary temple
for pharaohic princesses
subtiary pyramids
First pyramid ever made
Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara
First large scale monument in stone
Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara
Oldest surviving masonry
Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara
Father of Architecture
Imhotep
Pyramid originated from his idea of stacking up mastabas
Imhotep
Pyramid of Huni, the last king of the 3rd dynasty
Pyramid of Meidum