Exam II Items and what Flashcards
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Aegis,
3rd Intermediate Period (1069-716 BCE) Collar-like necklace bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and fertility. Usually, a lion or a cat.
Changes in Anthropoid Coffin Decoration.
New scheme imitated gold and colored inlay, and exceptional coffins coffins used gold rather than paint.
Double Uraeus
Late Period Egypt (716-332 BCE) Adoption/adaptation of egyptian iconography and motifs by Nubian Rulers
Pyramid architecture in Kush
Late Period Egypt (716-332 BCE) Tall, slender pyramids
Late period stone sarcophagus
Late period (716-332). Had not been used in private burials since New Kingdom, and came back into fashion.
Isis Knot
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE). Aka the Tyet, came to symbolize the goddess Isis.
Horace of the Crocodiles
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE). Magical stelai used to cure.
Iconography of Imhotep
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE).
Overarching theme of Ptolemaic Egypt
Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BCE), fusion of egyptian and Hellenistic (greek-ish) motifs!
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Relationship between EGyptian royals and roman emperors?
Roman emperors adopted royal iconography from Egypt.
Fayum portrait
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE) naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. Encaustic were higher quality, and made of wax, while lower quality ones were tempera.
Garlands?
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Garlands were used as symbols of justification/resurrection.
Painted/gilded mummy masks
Roman Egypt (30 BCE-395 CE). Fayum portrait style. Not much more to say?
Depiction of the Kandake
Kingdom of Kush (656 BCE-350 CE). Woman with outstreched arms. Kandake was the queen.
Kush funerary architecture
Kingdom of Kush (656 BCE- 350 CE). Emulated the Egyptians by burying their dead royalty in pyramids.
Coptic Textiles
Byzantine Egypt (395-641 CE)
Coptic stone carvings
Byzantine Egypt (395-641 CE) Used polytheist symbols within a Christian context
Ptah
Creator God, and god of wisdom, pottery, craftsmanship
Bestet
goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. usually depicted as a cat, so. ya know. there’s that.
Bes
protector god of pregnant women and children. He is regularly depicted as a dwarf with large ears, long-haired and bearded, with prominent genitals, and bow-legged.
Stamp seal
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). Used for royal business, I assume.
Cylinder seal
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE). A cylinder that you could roll onto a clay surface to seal
Proto-Cuneiform Writing
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE).
Cone Mosaics
Sumerian Pre-Dynastic Period (3500-2900 BCE).