2nd Art Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions | Palette of Narmer, from Hierakonpolis |
| King Narmer's request | Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt |
| Palettes were typically used for | grinding cosmetics |
| Both sides of palettes carved in raised.. | reliefs |
| Sphinx | lion's body and human head |
| The Great Sphinx, Giza | the largest monolithic statue in the world/oldest known monumental sculpture |
| Loss of the Great Sphinx nose by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim -AD 1378 | due to iconoclasm |
| How long it takes to mummify and prepare the body | 60 days |
| An Egyptian king's organs are put in.. | a Canopic Jar |
| Egyptian burial box | sarcophagus |
| Served a purpose similar to spirit traps | Sculptural ka portraits |
| Amount of boat pits found around the Pyramid of Choeps that were used for ceremonies | 5 boat pits |
| Egyptian funeral ceremonies included rituals like | carrying the body along the Nile to the Funerary Temple to be mummified |
| Part of the ritual ceremony | journey up the darkened causeway |
| Scribe | one who writes official documents |
| Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut | Deir el-Bahri |
| Hatshepsut | first acted as regent, then crowned herself as pharoah |
| Thutmose III | Head of the Egyptian army under Hatshepsut's rule |
| Hatshepsut's biggest trading expedition of her career | To trade with Egypt's neighbors to the South of Punt |
| Introduced belief in one god called Aton | Akhenaton |
| Moved the capital to the south | Akhenaton |
| Akhenaton's queen | Queen Nefertiti |
| Done to indicate an Egyptian royal family member | binding of babies' heads to produce an oblong shape |
| Male and female colors on Egyptian statues | Males are painted dark and females are painted white |
| Amount of tombs in the Valley of the Kings | 63 tombs |
| Discovered King Tut's grave | Howard Carter and George Herbert in 1922 |
| Sarcophagus' consisted of | 3 coffins, 4 shrines, and the mummy |
| A Golden Canopic Chest held.. | an albaster sarcophagus |
| Inside the sarcophagus of King Tut | 4 gold coffins containing the mummified internal organs of King Tut |
| The burial mask of King Tut consisted of.. | inlaid with blue glass and semi precious stones |
| Psusennes I, or Pasibkhanu or Hor-Pasebakhaenniut I | The Silver Pharoah: was the third pharaoh of the 21st dynasty of Egypt |
| Discovered Psusennes I intact tomb in Tanis in 1940 | Professor Pierre Montet |
| The Last of the Macedonian rulers of Egypt | Cleopatra VII |
| Roman senate waged war against | Mark Antony and Cleopatra |
| Defeated Mark Antony | Augustus Octavian |
| How Mark Antony and Cleopatra died | committed suicide |
| The only Ptolemaic ruler to learn to speak Egyptian | Cleopatra |
| Had Ptolemy XV Caesar (Caesarion) murdered | Octavion |
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