ancient egypt art and architecture through the middle kingdom
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Ancient EgyptArt and Architecture through the Middle Kingdom
Palaeolithic 700,000-7000 BCE
Saharan Neolithic 8800-4700Early 8800-6800Middle 6600-5100Late 5100-4700
Predynastic 5300-3000 Lower Egypt
Neolithic 5300-4000Maadi 4000-3200
Upper EgyptBadarian 4400-4000Naqada I 4000-3500 (Amratian)Naqada II 3500-3200 (Gerzean)Naqada III 3200-3000 (Dynasty 0)
1ST Persian Period (27th-30th) 525-4042d Persian Period 343-332Ptolemaic Period 332-30
Macedonian332-310Ptolemaic 305-30
Roman 30 BCE-642 CE
Nile Valley and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period
Hierakonpolis
Badarian pottery (British Museum)
Naqada II pot (Metropolitan Museum)
Assorted Old Kingdom pottery from Giza
Kylix by Euergides, circa 500 BC (British Museum)
Diorite statue of Khafra, 4th Dyn, from his valley temple (Egyptian Museum)
The Narmer Palette, 64 x 42 cm, from Hierokonpolis (Egyptian Museum)
Opening the Mouth ritual from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, 19th Dyn, from Thebes (British Museum)
Judgment scene from the Book of the Dead.of Hunefer: Egypt’s fourteen gods seated in judgment; Anubis brings Hunefer into the judgment hall; Anubis weighs his heart as Ammit awaits the result and Thoth records; Horus presents Hunefer to Osiris, seated in his shrine with Isis and NephthysBritish Museum
Development of the Benben stone:1. Hypothetical original2. As hieroglyphs in Pyramid Texts3. Round-top stelae from
Hierakonpolis (6 m)4. Hieroglyph at Amarna (18th Dyn)5. Shown on a temple at Amarna6. Granite stone at Abgig, Fayum
(12th Dyn; 12.62 m)7. Profile of 5th-Dyn Sun Temple,
Abu Ghurab8. Hieroglyph at Amarna9. Pyramidion from pyramid of
Khendjer (13th Dyn), Saqqara10. Granite obelisk of Senusret I
(12th Dyn), Helipolois (20.4 m)
Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)
Boat Procession from the Red Chapel at Karnak (18th Dyn)
Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)Heb-sed ritual court
Entrance and restored elevation of the Pavilion of the South, papyriform columns of the Pavilion of the North; Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)
Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)
The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn)
Painted niche-stone, Saqqara
Painted Limestone stele of Wepemnofret and 3D enhanced detail, Giza, 4th Dyn (Hearst Museum)
Serdab statues of Rahotep and Nofret, 4h Dyn (Egyptian Museum)
Graywacke triad statue of pharaoh Menkaura with Hathor and a nome goddess (0.63 m), 4th Dyn (Egyptian Museum)
Mastaba of Vizier Mereruka, Saqqara, 6th Dyn: funeral statue in front of his false door, plan, and detail of the wall relief
Wooden statues with painted stucco (now in the Egyptian Museum) in the serdab of Mitri’s mastaba at Saqarra, 6th Dyn
Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit (1.19 m) from Deir el Bahari, 11th Dyn (Egyptian Museum)
Atum leads Senusret I to Min-Amun relief from Senusret’s White Chapel at Karnak, 12th Dyn
Outer coffin of Djehutynakht (2.63 m long), 11th-12th Dyn, from Deir el-Bersha (Museum of Fine Arts)
Exterior and scenes from the rock-cut tomb of Khnumhotep II, nomarch under Amenemhat II and Senusret II, 12th Dyn, Beni Hasan; right: detail of Asiatics (Aamu)