Chapter 3:
Art of Ancient Egypt
• TERMS: sarcophagus, ankh, scarab,
conventions, canon of proportions,
hieroglyphs, façade, mastaba, serdab,
necropolis, canopic jars, clerestory, portico,
pylon, peristyle, hypostyle hall, collonade,
sunken relief, demotic
Map 3-1
Map
Timeline of Culture:
Egyptian Art
Periods:
• Early Dynastic Period: 3000-2500 BCE
• Old Kingdom: 2500-2100 BCE
• Middle Kingdom: 2000-1650 BCE
• New Kingdom: 1500-1000 BCE
• Amarna Period: 1353-1336 BCE
• Greco-Roman Period: 332 BCE-395 CE
p. 52
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Early Dynastic
Title: The Narmer Palette
Medium: Green schist
Date: 3000-2500 BCE
Front
Back
3-2 and 3-3
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Early Dynastic
Title: King Djoser’s
Funerary Complex
Artist: Imhotep
Medium: Limestone
Date: 3000-2500 BCE
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
3-4 and 3-5
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Old Kingdom
Title: Great Pyramids
Medium: Granite and limestone
Date: 2500-2100 BCE
Location: Giza, Egypt
3-6
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Old Kingdom
Title: Great Sphinx at Khare’s Funerary Complex
Medium: Sandstone
Date: 2500-2100 BCE
Location: Giza, Egypt
3-8
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Old Kingdom
Title: Statue of Khafre
Medium: Diorite-gabbro gneiss
Date: 2500-2100 BCE
3-9
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Old Kingdom
Title: Menkaure and a Queen
Medium: Painted graywacke
Date: 2500-2100 BCE
3-10
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Old Kingdom
Title: Seated Scribe
Medium: Painted limestone
Date: 2500-2100 BCE
3-12
Period/Style: Old Kingdom
Title: Ti Watching a Hippopotamus
Hunt, Tomb of Ti
Medium: Painted limestone
Date: 2500-2100 BCE
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
3-13
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Middle Kingdom
Title: Head of Senusret III
Medium: Yellow quartzite
Date: 2000-1650 BCE
3-14
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Middle Kingdom
Title: Rock-cut Tombs
Medium: Rock
Date: 2000-1650 BCE
Location: Beni Hasan, Egypt
3-17
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Middle Kingdom
Title: Stele of Amenemhat
Medium: Painted limestone
Date: 2000-1650 BCE
3-18
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Reconstruction of the Great Temple of Amun
Medium: Stone
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
Location: Karnak, Egypt
3-19 and 3-20
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Reconstruction of Hypostyle
Hall and Columns at Great Temple
of Amun
Medium: Stone
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
Location: Karnak, Egypt
3-21
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Hatshepsut Knelling
Medium: Red granite
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
3-22 and 3-23
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
Medium: Stone
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
Location: Deir El-Bahri Egypt
3-25
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Amarna
Title: Statue of Akhenaten
Medium: Painted sandstone
Date: 1353-1336 BCE
3-28
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Amarna
Title: Nefertiti
Medium: Painted Limestone
Date: 1353-1336 BCE
3-26
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Amarna
Title: Akhenaten and His Family
Medium: Painted limestone
Date: 1353-1336 BCE
p. 73 (top)
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Amarna
Title: Fish-Shaped Bottle
Medium: Core glass
Date: 1353-1336 BCE
3-29
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Inner Coffin of Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus
Medium: Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
3-1
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun
Medium: Gold, glass, and
semiprecious stones
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
p. 74-75
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Exterior and Interior of Temple of Ramesses II
Medium: Rock-cut
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
Location: Abu Simbel, Egypt
3-31
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: New Kingdom
Title: Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris
Medium: Painted papyrus
Date: 1500-1000 BCE
p. 77 (top)
Culture: Egyptian
Period/Style: Greco-Roman
Title: The Rosetta Stone
Medium: Stone
Date: 332 BCE-395 CE