The “King Sahure and a Nome God” is a fascinating statue because of the many meanings and details that have been captured in it. This small gneiss high-relief statue of a King and a Nome that only stands sixty-four centimeters in height and forty-six centimeters in width dates back to around 2458 B.C.E. to 2446 B.C.E. The statue is of King Sahure, the second Egyptian King of the fifth Dynasty, sitting on his throne wearing the Nemes head cloth, false beard, and flaring hood of the Uraeus. On the King’s brow is the Cobra Goddess who protects Egyptian Kings.
(4) Black eye lines – Egyptian guys made up his face with black paints. (5) Proportion – Flabby torso. In the EGYPTIAN COLLECTION, New Kingdom and Late Period Room, 3. Reliefs ( some traces of paint), Amarna period, reign of Akhenaten Q. Cite three examples with scenes from king Akhenaten’s family life.
Daoism is a philosophy that defines proper conduct for people and governments. Buddhism is to worship a man who try’s not to overcome suffering. Egyptian religion was based polytheism, or worship of many gods. The Egyptians had as many as 2000 gods and goddesses. Often gods and goddesses were represented as part human and part animal much like the civilization of the Aztecs whose gods were viewed as having the appearance of an animal or having animal parts on their body.
All of the design elements were made symmetrical along a dominant center line which created a processional path from outside the temple directly into the sanctuary, where you would find the cult image of the god. The closer you became to the sanctuary, the smaller and darker the rooms would be in comparison to those that were further away. The pharaoh Hatshepsut is a notable figure in Egyptian history because she ruled in a period that was otherwise dominated by male warrior-kings (1473 - 1458 BCE). She was only one of four female kings to ever rule Egypt. Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and later married her half brother Thutmose II, who then reigned for 14 years.
The author Susan Woodford compares archaic Greek style and classical Greek style by explaining their history and showing their different sculptures. Archaic Greek style was based on the Egyptian statues made from stone. Therefore, the Greeks implemented the Egyptian method of carving and the system of proportions. Archaic Greek style involved balanced statues, facing straight forward avoiding poses containing twist, turns, or bends. However, the adventurist Greeks started to transform the traditional statues by having the head slightly turned and the hip raised.
The ziggurats were used mainly for worship and it was considered the home of the gods and a place where they were thought to reveal themselves. Only the priest, religious officers and their staff were only able to get in. Pyramids were four-sided massive monuments used for the tombs of royalty and important upper class people that would guarantee immortality for the people buried there. The pyramids structure was elaborate and complexes that were made from limestone blocks. Also at the center of the pyramid was a chamber held for the pharaohs mummified body’s surrounded by their treasurer which they thought they could carry with them to the afterlife( Culture and Values, Cunningham /Reich, 2010 , chapter 1).
Both Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III left numerous remains in Nubia: at Qasr Ibrim , Sai , Semna , Faras , Quban , and especially Buhen , where the queen built a temple for Horus of Buhen . The scenes on the walls of the temple originally included figures of both Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III , but he later replaced her name with his own and that of his father and grandfather . The Buhen Temple (now entirely moved to the Khartoum Museum) contains scenes of Hatshepsut's coronation and veneration of her father . Memphis may have received attention from Hatshepsut as a ruler . An alabaster jar fragment from the region of the Ptah Temple has been identified , but more significantly the colossal Egyptian alabaster sphinx that sits within the south wall of the Ramesside Temple precinct may have formed part of an earlier approach to the temple and was very likely accompanied by a second sphinx .
world’s most famous pyramids are the three great pyramid tombs at Giza in Egypt. They were built around 589 to 2503 by the three fourth-dynasty kings: Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. Ziggurats are much like Ancient Egyptian pyramids in the way they are built. They both have four sides which are meant to raise up towards the gods. However, unlike Egyptian pyramids, Ziggurats are not smooth on their exteriors.
The Human-headed winged bull and winged lion alone had many different designs and for such a big sculpture it had a lot of details in the wings, feet, face, and the beard of the creature. These designs followed along with more of the art that was created in the empire. In “The King and Eunuch Attendant” (Fig. 3), which was another carving made to protect the empire walls, there seems to follow a similar design and overall feel of the “Human-headed winged bull and winged lion” (Fig. 1).
Votive Statue of Eannatum, Prince of Lagash My museum object is on Eannatum, the prince of Lagash, and I chose this particular piece because it was the most unique from all the other pieces. The votive statue is from the Early Dynastic II period, which lasted from, 2600 to 2340 B.C. The unique fact about this statue is that, on the back of the statue, there is a genuine inscription on his back, where the cuneiform script for ‘Eannatum, prince of Lagash, son of Akurgal has been carefully chipped out of the rock (Lin). The inscription has a pictographic base and on the statue if looking closely, you can see the prince’s name inscribed in the upper right shoulder. Eannatum means, “worthy of e-anna” and was given in respect to the planetary goddess, Inanna, who was basically the Venus of the Romans.