The Basics
Critiques
Historical Context
Value to the World
Fun Facts
100
City and country artifact was found in.
What is Alexandria, Egypt?
100
It would have made the artifact more personable and fit perfectly above the painting.
What is a name?
100
Which of these historical themes—gender, environment and energy, migration, trade of culture, or technology—fits best?
What is trade of culture?
100
This slab proves the existence of two cultures in one place and shows how Hellenism spread after Alexander the Great.
What does it offer to the world?
100
The stone of the slab.
What is Limestone?
200
The artifact was created in.
What is the 3rd Century BCE, the Hellenistic period?
200
This small feature where the boy stands impacts its representation today.
What is the hole in the slab?
200
Alexander the Great forced two cultures to become one and made Greek the common tongue in Egypt; they had a specific name for this union of culture.
What is Greco-Egyptian?
200
The man is shown as strong and brave during the Hellenistic period.
What is gender roles?
200
The year the slab was found.
What is 1884?
300
Who this slab was created for.
What are the families of the deceased
300
The feature of the slab has been destroyed through erosion or human error.
What is the frame of the painting?
300
Multiple slabs like this artifact were found dedicated to Greek soldiers when they were left in Alexandria by Alexander the Great.
How did Alexander the Great spread Hellenism?
300
The horse is a powerful and wealthy symbol that has been represented throughout history.
What is global context?
300
The first owner of the slab.
Who is Elbert E. Farman?
400
The man represented is from
What is Greece?
400
The technique used to improve lighting and shadows on this slab is why the horse has many different shades and colors.
What is Trompe l’oeli?
400
Greeks believed they were the world's savior and saw many other cultures including Egyptians as ____
What are barbarians?
400
The slab was made for the families of the deceased and honored those who died.
What is funerary practices?
400
Long, narrow slots in the rock for burial.
What is Loculi?
500
Alexander the Great enforced the spread of Hellenism.
How did these cultures become one?
500
The most common misconception of Hellenistic Egypt.
Egypt was forced into Hellenistic views through contracts, marriages, and job opportunities.
500
Trompe l’oeil was brought to Egypt by the Greeks and taught the Egyptians specialized skills, and was used to create five other funerary slabs.
What is the soldier's tomb?
500
This slab allows us to see a memorial for a typical soldier who would have been middle class, giving historians now an insight into different lifestyles at this time.
What is the value to historians?
500
The owner of all six slabs before donated them to a museum.
Who is Darius Ogen Mills?