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52 Cards in this Set
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Female Painting Conventions Legs together yellow, pale skin |
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Male Painting Conventions One foot in front of the other red skin |
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Fractional Representation Profile of Face and legs impossible positions |
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Horror Vacuii Fear of empty spaces Egyptians filled all blanks space |
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Crook and Flail sympols of pharohonic leadership Crook: sheparding Flail: encouraging, punishment |
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Motifs Feather wood grain star |
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Motifs Spiral Unwinding Rope |
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Palm Capital Often Painted |
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Lotus Bud Capital Reed Column |
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Papyrus: Lower Kingdom Lotus: Upper Kingdom |
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Motifs
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Vulture Motif Feminine nature |
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Scarab Pushing the sun Good fortune Male Nature |
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Sun or Winged Disc |
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God Carrying Ankhs |
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Sarcophagus Outer Shell of Coffin not the one that looks human |
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Canopic Jars Lungs(Hapy, baboon) Stomach (Duamutef, Jackal) Liver(Imsety, humanheaded) Intestines (Qebehsenuef, Falcon |
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Brazier Holds hot coals for heat |
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Ankh Chest |
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Egyptian Bed with neck pillow |
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Folding leg chair |
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Bull Legs |
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Tuts Golden throne Gold,Silver, with inlays of glass, calcite and ceramic animal feet |
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Tuts Throne Wood and Ivory |
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The Ecclesiastical Throne ofTutankhamen Folding StoolVeneer Faience(glazed clay) Ebony, Ivory, Gold |
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Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple Hathor Column- Goddess of love |
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Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple ColonnadedLimestone Terraces Ramps |
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Karnak HypostyleHall, Clerestory - openings near the top of the walls to let in light |
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Hypostyle Hall |
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Karnak Trabeated- criss crossing post and Lintels |
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Screen Wall Hypostyle Hall Wall only goes up halfway |
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Colonnaded Court(Peristyle) - enclosed by columns Screen Wall As far as the public could go |
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Cavetto-Egyptian cornice |
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Karnak Pylon Gate Hiroglyphics battered walls-sloping sides |
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Rosetta Stone Same edict in 3 languages |
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Luxor Pylon Gate roof covered in gold alloy-electrum obelisk Battered Walls |
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Karnak Avenueof Ram Headed Sphinx |
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Luxor Ave of the sphinxes meant to dwarf man |
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Sphinx of Chephren (Khafre)
Frontality: meant to be viewed from the front largest monolithic limestone statue |
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Giza Pyramid Limestone skin (Casing Stone) Pyramids orginally were skinned entirely in limestone |
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Giza Pyramids 4th dynasty the diagonal edge is equal in length to the base |
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Temple ofAbuSimbel Intaglio Incised Relief the subject is carved into the background |
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Kom Ombo Bas Relief the background is carved away leaving the subject proud |
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Sakkra EngagedColumn, Papyrus (Bell) Capital |
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Sakkra EngagedColumn, Lotus Stem Column |
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Sakkra First asher block construction Asher Block- carved stone allows for tight joints no mortar |
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Sakkra Funerary Complex First wood and stone construction one human door large intrusions to give effect of door for the gods |
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Stepped Pyramids of Zozer Stacked mastubas burial place for nobility |
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Mastuba royal burial tomb, but not for pharohs |
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Cartouche
Oval and Line at the bottom distinguishes it as a cartouche can be rotate 90 Egyptian coat of arms |
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Karnak Amun Sanctuary only priests and scribes allowed in contained cultic items |
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Color Symbolism Green Red Blue Yellow White Black |
Green-newlife/joy Red-Victory,Anger, Fire Blue-Sky,Water, re-birth Yellow-Imperishable,eternal, gold White-Omnipotenceand purity Black-Death, night, but also fertility |
