Ancient Egypt shows a strong bureaucracy and class differentiation between people where the statue, Kneeling Captive from Metropolitan Museum supports such inequality physically. Kneeling Captive was found in the pyramid complex of Pepi II that is the reign of Pepi II from Dynasty 6 in the near end of Old Kingdom. The time and statue are correlated to reveal the social complexity of ancient Egypt especially the existence of inequality.
The appearance of Kneeling Captive has a typical Egyptian dressing that shows the customs in that period. The statue is half naked which accords with the hot and dry climate in Egypt where people don't have a lot of clothes on selves to prevent sweating and humidity. The flat breast and slim body shape that seems …show more content…
However, the racks in the Nile also implicitly divided Egypt into north lower Egypt and south upper Egypt. In the Old Kingdom, upper and lower are united politically, economically and architecturally. The increasing of cultural complexity leads to the political disunity in upper and lower side which forms the prisoners of the war, Kneeling Captive. The statue has his elbows tied tightly to the back where the rope was engraved in detail that every single line is visible to see. The delicate sculpture of the rope meaningfully explains the social complexity in the time period because people were experienced the transition of one ruler to another. The position of kneeling also implies the importance of class differentiation and symbolizes that the Kneeling Captive was a low-class person that he is politically and physically seems shorter than other people. Just as the Predynastic period's Narmer Crown, people have physically symbolism to show who they are and the Kneeling Captive just as its name is a prisoner who is captured and punished badly to prove the domination of the ruler. These together shows the complexity of the Egyptian …show more content…
The most obvious about the Kneeling Captive is that the man is kneeling on the floor and his elbows tied in the back. This position shows he is inhumanly treated because tieing is a way of conquering one's physical body and often people apply it on animals. In this case, the man of the statue is compared to an animal who needs domestication and has no equal human rights as others. Another apparent thing about the statue will be the tied rope on the man's elbows. The rope is tied tightly on both elbows that pressure the arms to the back and restrict the upper body to move. Any stretch of upper body will lead to painful results and such punishment is a physical jail that traps the individual. Although some pieces of the statue were missing, his stillness in that position shows that he is calm and usual to the situation that he was in which implies a strong inequality existed in that time period.
The statue, Kneeling Captive just like its name, explains the history of the Old Kingdom from unity to the disunity of the nation. In the transition, the statue also pained with the customs of Egyptian norms that proves the existence of past time and reasons of such norms formed. From the analysis of customs, we can suggest the society of that time and predict imagery about the society. The positions and structures of the statue provide the understanding of society and politic in the Old Kingdom that matches with the
The appearance of Kneeling Captive has a typical Egyptian dressing that shows the customs in that period. The statue is half naked which accords with the hot and dry climate in Egypt where people don't have a lot of clothes on selves to prevent sweating and humidity. The flat breast and slim body shape that seems …show more content…
However, the racks in the Nile also implicitly divided Egypt into north lower Egypt and south upper Egypt. In the Old Kingdom, upper and lower are united politically, economically and architecturally. The increasing of cultural complexity leads to the political disunity in upper and lower side which forms the prisoners of the war, Kneeling Captive. The statue has his elbows tied tightly to the back where the rope was engraved in detail that every single line is visible to see. The delicate sculpture of the rope meaningfully explains the social complexity in the time period because people were experienced the transition of one ruler to another. The position of kneeling also implies the importance of class differentiation and symbolizes that the Kneeling Captive was a low-class person that he is politically and physically seems shorter than other people. Just as the Predynastic period's Narmer Crown, people have physically symbolism to show who they are and the Kneeling Captive just as its name is a prisoner who is captured and punished badly to prove the domination of the ruler. These together shows the complexity of the Egyptian …show more content…
The most obvious about the Kneeling Captive is that the man is kneeling on the floor and his elbows tied in the back. This position shows he is inhumanly treated because tieing is a way of conquering one's physical body and often people apply it on animals. In this case, the man of the statue is compared to an animal who needs domestication and has no equal human rights as others. Another apparent thing about the statue will be the tied rope on the man's elbows. The rope is tied tightly on both elbows that pressure the arms to the back and restrict the upper body to move. Any stretch of upper body will lead to painful results and such punishment is a physical jail that traps the individual. Although some pieces of the statue were missing, his stillness in that position shows that he is calm and usual to the situation that he was in which implies a strong inequality existed in that time period.
The statue, Kneeling Captive just like its name, explains the history of the Old Kingdom from unity to the disunity of the nation. In the transition, the statue also pained with the customs of Egyptian norms that proves the existence of past time and reasons of such norms formed. From the analysis of customs, we can suggest the society of that time and predict imagery about the society. The positions and structures of the statue provide the understanding of society and politic in the Old Kingdom that matches with the