FINAL Flashcards

(30 cards)

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Animal Cults

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  • Popular religion during the Ptolemaic Period and Late Period
  • Animals were asw particular deities
  • Worshippers sought to hour the deity by donating bronze or mummified remains of the associated animals
  • Dogs were linked to Anubis
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Apis Bull

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  • Buried at Saqqara in huge granite sarcophagi
  • ASW the Egyptian God Osiris
  • At Memphis during Early Dynastic Period
  • The Bull god was mourned throughout Egypt
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Beautiful Festival of the Valley

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  • Honored the souls of the deceased and allowed for the living and dead to celebrate together
  • People visited with their departed loved ones at their tombs and brought bouquets of flowers and food and drink offering
  • Happened between harvest and the nile flood
  • Divine boat of Amun traveled from the Karnak temple to the necropolis of Western Thebes
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Canon of Proportion

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  • Images look alike do to this standard formula
  • A grid system used to draw out the standard formula
  • Artist would plot points on predetermined set of measurements then connect the dots ultimately creating a human figure
  • Based on Hierarchy more important larger the person
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Canopic Jars

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  • Organs were placed in individual jars
  • Known as the 4 sons of Horus
  • Liver, lungs, intestines, stomach were removed and wrapped separately
  • Imsety (human), Hapy (ape), Kebehsenuef (falcon), Dauamutef (jackal)
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Edwin Smith surgical papyrus

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  • Systematic analysis of injuries and their treatment
  • Textual tradition stretching back to the ~Middle Kingdom
  • Used for teaching and Reference
  • Symptoms listed together with specific findings from physical exams
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Ennead

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  • Written in hieroglyphs for “god” repeated in 3 groups of 3
  • Atum’s evolution into the maj. elements and forces of the created world in generational terms as a group of 9 gods
  • Often Considered as a collective designation fro maj. cosmic gods rather than a specific grp
  • Shu and Tefnutm, Geb and Nut, Oriris and Isis, and Seth and Nephthys
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Entanglement

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  • Unhappy of acculturation only looking at the dominate group to open side
  • State run text top down, archy bottom up what’s happening on the ground what cant we get from the textual record
  • Dynamic aspects of adoptiion of Nubian and Egypt culture
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Execration magic

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  • Listing names of Egypt potential enemies is inscribed on pots or figurines
  • Pots or Figurines are broken, incinerated and buried
  • Intended to destroy the malign spirit
  • pots and figurines are known as execration texts
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Faience

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  • Fired to form a natural glazed
  • created through molds
  • Used to create game pieces for Senet
  • Used for grave goods
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“God’s wife”

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  • Most important position in the temple
  • Usually held by the daughter of the king who never married
  • Carry out ritual actions before the god such as shaking of the sacred rattle
  • Hatshepsut was a prominent but after her death the importance declined
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Horapollo

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  • 4 Bullet Points
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inw

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  • 4 Bullet Points
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Mahirper

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  • His guy a warrior and high official a royal fan barer
  • Raised in the Egyptian court, son of Nubia prince poss
  • He had a tomb of the valley of the kings
  • Dark skin depicted in the book of the dead
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Meroitic Culture

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  • late in time its own script and language
  • Demotic Based alphabet
  • Large increase on female rulings
  • Art had more realistic body depictions
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Min

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  • Fertility, virility, and reproduction
  • Amun manifested as Min
  • Usually represented in human form
  • Had a fail in his right hand and erect penis
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Mummy Caches

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  • 4 Bullet Points
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Ogdoad

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  • Eight Deities “ group of eight”
  • Venerated at Hermopolis known as “eight town”
  • Thought to have existed before the creation, creator Deities
  • Appear just before the Ptolemaic Period
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Opening of the Mouth

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  • Priest wears the mask pf Anubis
  • Last funeral rite before final offerings were made and the body was entombed
  • Priest touches mummy mouth, eyes, and ears with adze to ensure the use in afterlife
  • Larger funerals ceremony came after a great procession
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Opet Festival

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  • Boat procession
  • Held in late summer it celebrated the journey of the god Amun from Karnak to Luxor
  • Priests would carry out the ceremonial boats to waters edge
  • Ram head of Amun draped with necklaces would be placed on the Bow
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Osiris Myth

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  • Rebirth of the Netherworld
  • Murdered by his brother Seth
  • Isis restores Osiris body in order to conceive Horus
  • Horus fights Seth and ultimately wins and restores order and resurrects Osiris
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Pi-ramesses

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  • Lost Capitol for Ramesses II
  • The capitol took about 18 yrs to build
  • Moved the capitol to be easier to locate by diplomats
  • Known for its elaborate size
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Sacred Barque

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  • Said to be gods of Egyptians transportation
  • More elaborate boats appeared in the reign of Hatshesput
  • May have been housed in special chapels in the temples
  • Shrine with the cult statue is placed in the boats cabin
  • Bow and stern were decorated with the haed of the god
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Sympathetic magic

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  • Homeopathic is similarities between ideas,
    objects, and people
  • Homeopathic similar to voodoo doll
    -Contagious is once in contact, always in
    contact
  • Contagious is Hair, fingernail clippings, etc.
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Temple of Karnak
- Located on the east bank of Thebe - Series of temples built by succession of pharaohs and dedicated to the state god Amun - monumental gateways, aves sphinxes and sacred lakes make to main axes - Primary source for all aspects Ancient Egypt culture after the old kingdom
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Votive Objects
- Elite set up votive statues and steale in temple precincts - Purpose was to link for eternity the donor with the deity of the temple and the cult perform there - Depict deceased rulers - believed that prayers and offerings to the late monarch would bring them benefits
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Wab Priest
- 4 Bullet Points
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Wadi hammamat
- Produced stone mainly for statues - Location of the Fawakhir gold mines - Blocks transported on sleds by ox or ment - Exploited for its graywacke
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"Weighing of the Heart"
- Heart center of thought, memory, and personality - Weighed on a balance by the god of Anubis while divine scribe Thoth records the verdict - Heart and feather are equal weight the deceased is declared true - He or she might also join the celestial circuit
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Ptah
- Chief god of Memphis - United craftsmanship and the creative word into the theory of creations - Father of Ramesses II - Mummified man holding a scepter