Lapis lazuli

Midterm Portraiture in ancient Egypt stood as still in history as it does today. Figures were made to represent and embody the person they portrayed. Looking upon ancient Egyptian statues today transcends back into the time they were actually built. Each mimicked another throughout centuries of unbroken tradition standing still and strong. Very few rulers broke away from Egyptian paradigm. Ancient Egyptian portraits were created to serve the ruler of the period. They stood tall and shadowed…

Saving Private Ryan, Casablanca, and Inglourious Basterds are three different movies that were produced in different time periods and have different plots, details, and points of view, but all still revolve around one common historical event-World War II. This is an occurrence that happens not only in movies but also in literature. A literary example of this is the correlation between the flood story in The Epic of Giglamesh and the flood story in the Old Testament Bible. Giglamesh is an epic…

Formal Visual Analysis of Head of King Userkaf The sculpture titled Head of King Userkaf is a naturalistic sculpture made from limestone in the likeness of King Userkaf, the first king to rule at the start of Dynasty five in Egypt1. The piece is rigid and broken at the base of the neck, suggesting that it is a fragment of the full original sculpture, which most likely would have included the king’s entire body. Additionally, cracks on the top part of the sculpture suggests that it had been…

because ancient Egyptians were very religious. The funeral system in The Tale of Sinuhe suggests the strict Egyptian religious practices. “A funeral procession will be made for you on the day of joining the earth, with a mummy case of gold, a mask of lapis lazuli----and the offering invocation recited for you; sacrifices will be made at the mouth of your offering chapel.”7 Egyptians believe the eternity life after a person’s death, the tombs need to be carefully decorated and the funerals need…

Enkido and their deep friendship by behaving as Enkido was still alive. Also, the quotation also proves that Gilgamesh was courageous enough to run in the wild. What’s more, Gilgamesh showed his treasures such as “a flask of lapis,” “a flute of carnelian,” and “a chair of lapis lazuli” to gods so that Enkido could have a better life after he died (Tablet VIII, 143, 147, 152). With the help of above-mentioned actions and quotations, we can see that Anna Lai is a woman wisdom who is the same as…

About 3,500 years. Some 600 miles up the Nile valley, south of Cairo, you come upon the Valley of the Kings. Here the pharaohs made secret tombs in the sides of mountains. The Valley of the Kings is one of the most isolated spots on earth. Almost nothing grows there – no tree, no shrub, no blade of grass. The sun hits down from an everlastingly clear sky whose bright blue is the only colour divergence to the dull, constant dark gold rock and sand, hills and valley floor. All along the desert…

The creation story, along with many other stories of the bible are not clear black and white of what can be considered right and wrong. This grey area is not only present in the story of Noah and the ark but also in other accounts such as, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars hold a belief that the story of Noah found in Genesis 6-9 and the Epic of Gilgamesh found in Israelite literature are accounts that have significant parallels. In the beginning of each story, the one deity or the gods…

with many pieces, such as the Ishtar Gate and Nike of Samothrace. Originally, the Ishtar Gate was built as an expansion of the city of Babylon, which is modern day Iraq, in 575 BCE (Ayerbe). On the gate, which was made of brick and covered in lapis lazuli, are the Babylonian gods of Marduk, the patron god of the city represented by dragons,…

"The Standard of Ur" and the "Last Judgment of Hu-Nefur" are two historical pieces of art from different cultures that use the narrative technique. Art is given the label "Narrative" when it visually conveys a story. "The Standard of Ur" is a Sumerian artifact that depicts importants roles of a ruler. The "Last Judgment of Hu-Nefur" is a Egyptian narrative of a scribe named Hu-Nefur being judged to get into heaven. Both of these pieces played an important role in understanding the Egyptian and…

painting. During the time of the creation of this painting pigments available to artist were pigments such as ultramarine, lead-tin-yellow, malachite, verdigris and vermilion. Ultramarine is a deep blue pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli(deep blue stone) into a powder. Lead-tin-yellow is a yellow pigment also known as "Yellow of Old Masters". Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. Verdigris is a green pigment made through a process which that occurs when…