Vocabulary A
Visual Analysis
Contextual Information
Themes
Vocabulary B
100
A cemetary, from the Greek "city of the dead".
What is a necropolis?
100
Life-like face and eyes, naturalistic rather than idealized, sitting cross-legged and ready to write.
What is are the visual attributes of the 
Seated Scribe?
100
Discovered at the tombs of Saqqara.
Where was the seated scribe found?
100
A powerful symbol of the king's control of resources across the northern continent of Africa.
What are the pyramids?
also
What does the granite of Kafre's statue symbolize?
also
What does the red granite of Khufu's sarcophagus symbolize?
100
An architectural feature created by stacking stones or bricks horizontally in an overlapping pattern.
What is a corbelled arch?
200
An architectural element in which a column is embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall.
What is an engaged column?
200
A ground line that divides an image into scenes.
What is a register?
200
A sacred stone in ancient Egyptian religion that represents the mound that emerged from the waters of chaos and the connection between the divine and the earthly realm; the capstone of pyramids and obelisks.
What is a ben-ben stone?
200
Artifact that symbolizes unified Egypt.
What is the Palette of King Narmer?
200
During the New Kingdom period, this material was used to record information that assisted the deseased on their afterlife journey.
What is papyrus?
300
The pharoah's kilt.
What is a shendjet?
300
This columns of this mortuary temple mimic the vertical lines of the mountain grooves behind it, as well as the horizontal planes of the plateau at Luxor.
What is the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut?
300
The hyroglyphs of this building commemorate the pharoah's expedition to Punt to purchase luxary items including myrrh trees, exotic animals, gold, ivory, and spices.
What is the mortuary templ of Hatshepsut?
300
A papyrus scroll that provides guidance for the afterlife of an elite Egyptian.
What is the Book of the Dead?
300
Stone coffins that held mummies.
What are sarcophagi?
400
Monumental gateways to Egyptian temples that are made up of two towers and a gate, symbolic of the sun moving beyond the horizon of two mountains.
What are pylons?
400
The helmet mask that covered King Tut's mummy.
What is a death mask?
400
The idol diety who lived at Karnak and crossed the Nile annually to spend the night in the holy of holies at Hatshetsut's mortuary temple.
Who is Amun-Ra
400
Evidence that a queen was equal to her king.
Why is Menkaure's queen the same height?
400
The high point of Egyptian art during the New Kingdom, noted for it's curvalinear and naturalistic forms.
Was is the Amarna Period?
500
An Ancient Greek term denoting a building having rows of columns supporting its roof.
What is a hypostyle hall?
500
A petrified ray of sun, both a tomb and a palace for the king.
What is a pyramid?
500
The precursor to the pyramid, or building blocks that became the step pyramid.
What is a mastaba?
500
A wall surrounding a sacred area, such as the walls surrounding the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
What is a temenos wall
?
600
Any fenestrated (windowed) wall of a room that is carried higher than the surrounding roofs to light the interior space.
What is a clerestory?
600
The king and his wife are featured as a dyad in this artifact.
What is Menkaure and His Queen?
600
The ceremony performed on the bark as the mummified pharaoh was transported to his pyramid tomb.
What is the opening of the mouth ceremony?
600
This word means "in the natural or original position or place" such as the discovery of the Seated Scribe.
What does in situ mean?