Cartouche Of Tutankhamun Analysis

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As you can see in the first Egyptian painting named the Cartouche of Tutankhamun it 's more than just a name its a representation of a person the Egyptian civilization loved and cherished. I the relief of the Assyrian Battle Scene shows a strong soldier and although people may not know his name they know what he did. Although his name wasn 't presented his story tells you everything.Cartouche of Tutankhamun seems to be painted with watercolors on a temple wall. In the Assyrian Battle Scene is a relief constructed of stone on a wall. I cannot seem to find the sizes of the Assyrian Battle Scene nor the Cartouche of Tutankhamun. When art was created back in the Mesopotamian era there wasn 't an amazing array of colors such as the ones you find …show more content…
Although there is no exact setting or background there are ornaments included in this artwork. This work happens to be mirrored almost perfectly except for the middle of the painting where the cartouches are different from one another. As you can see the 2 identical oriental figures happen to be wearing the traditional Asian clothing from that time. The darker figure bon the bottom (possibly of African decent) seems to be dressed in her cultures proper clothing. Although those characters seem normal the third one, the sphinx is not. Sphinx 's are a mythical creature composing of a lions body and persons, most likely an Egyptian 's. Above the main subject of this painting their is a bird flying above the figures, in most instances birds like the one shown in this painting mean death. The painting seems to show a picture of hatred or even battle within the King 's life. In the Assyrian Battle Scene the relief composes of two decapitated soldiers stumbling with two other soldiers with spears atop of their stallion. Above these figures there seems to be another bird representing death. In Cartouche of Tutankhamun you can see

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