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Page 1: Ancient Egypt Art and Architecture through the Middle Kingdom

Ancient EgyptArt and Architecture through the Middle Kingdom

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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

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Nile Valley and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period

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Hierakonpolis

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Badarian pottery (British Museum)

Naqada II pot (Metropolitan Museum)

Assorted Old Kingdom pottery from Giza

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Kylix by Euergides, circa 500 BC (British Museum)

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Diorite statue of Khafra, 4th Dyn, from his valley temple (Egyptian Museum)

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The Narmer Palette, 64 x 42 cm, from Hierokonpolis (Egyptian Museum)

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Opening the Mouth ritual from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, 19th Dyn, from Thebes (British Museum)

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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

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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)

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Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)

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Boat Procession from the Red Chapel at Karnak (18th Dyn)

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Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)Heb-sed ritual court

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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)

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Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)

The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn)

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Painted niche-stone, Saqqara

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Painted Limestone stele of Wepemnofret and 3D enhanced detail, Giza, 4th Dyn (Hearst Museum)

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Serdab statues of Rahotep and Nofret, 4h Dyn (Egyptian Museum)

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Graywacke triad statue of pharaoh Menkaura with Hathor and a nome goddess (0.63 m), 4th Dyn (Egyptian Museum)

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Mastaba of Vizier Mereruka, Saqqara, 6th Dyn: funeral statue in front of his false door, plan, and detail of the wall relief

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Wooden statues with painted stucco (now in the Egyptian Museum) in the serdab of Mitri’s mastaba at Saqarra, 6th Dyn

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Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit (1.19 m) from Deir el Bahari, 11th Dyn (Egyptian Museum)

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Atum leads Senusret I to Min-Amun relief from Senusret’s White Chapel at Karnak, 12th Dyn

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Outer coffin of Djehutynakht (2.63 m long), 11th-12th Dyn, from Deir el-Bersha (Museum of Fine Arts)

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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)