IV. Egyptian Art Living with the Gods DU1701 Periods of Art History I: from Prehistory to Trajan Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D. c. 3100 BCE ‘Unification’ of Egypt under King Narmer (or Menes) c. 2800–2200 BCE Old Kingdom (Memphis capital) c. 2200–2052 BCE Intermediate Period c. 2052–1567 Middle Kingdom (Thebes capital) c. 1567–1085 BCE New Kingdom (Thebes capital, except during the Amarna period) c. 1085–713 BCE Intermediate Period c. 712–332 BCE Late Period (foreign dynasties: Nubian, Lybians, Persian) c. 332–30 BCE Ptolemaic Period Waset / Thebes Luxor and Karnak (Valley of the Kings) Faiyum Shedet / Krokodilopolis / Arsinoë Memphis Cairo (Al-Qāhira ) Alexandria (founded 331 BCE) Amarna Nekhen / Hierakonpolis Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, predynastic, c. 3000-2920 BCE, c. 63,5 cm / Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Left) the crown of Lower Egypt and (right) the crown of Upper Egypt, worn by King Sesostris III, relief on door lintels at Madāmūd, c. 1878–1843 BCE / Egyptian Museum, Cairo Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII between the goddesses Wadjet (symbolizing lower Egypt) and Nekhbet (symbolizing upper Egypt) relief from theTemple of Edfu, Egypt, second century BCE Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 AD) offering to Hathor, Roman Mammisi, Dendera Temple complex Statue of King Haremheb with Horus c. 1343–1315 BCE, 153 x 73 x 77 cm place of origin unknown / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien Osiris on a Throne, 7.8 x 6.9 x 15 cm, ca. 664- 595 BCE / Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Priest Holding the Figure of Osiris, ca. 665-650 BCE, 57 x 14 x 26 cm, from Karnak / Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Seated Scribe, c. 2620-2500 B.C.E., Old Kingdom, painted limestone, inlay for the eyes, found in Saqqara / Musée du Louvre, Paris Haremhab royal scribe, New Kingdom, ca. 1336–1323 BCE, from Memphis (?), granodiorite, H: 113 cm / Metropolitan Museum, New York Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, c. 2667–2648 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza, Pharaoh Khufu, c. 2580–2560 BC Valley of the Kings, in use from c. 16th to 11th century BCE ‘Book of the Dead’, Papyrus of Ani, c. 1,250 BCE, from Upper Egypt (Thebes) / British Museum, London Book of the Dead of Hunefer, royal scribe, c. 1,310 BCE, 45.7 x 83.4 cm, Thebes, Egypt / British Museum, London Death mask of PharaohTutankhamun, (r. 1,332–1,323 BCE), c. 1,323 BCE, discovered in 1925 by Howard Carter in the Valley of Kings / Egyptian Museum, Cairo Tomb of PharaohTutankhamun, 3D reconstruction, c. 1346–1337 BCE - Fragment of a King’s Face (Akhenaten or Thutmose IV?), New Kingdom, from Thebes, ca. 1353–1336 BCE, 13,8 x 11,3 x 4,4 cm - Fragment of a Queen’s Face (Nefertiti or Kiya), New Kingdom, ca. 1353–1336 BCE, yellow jasper, 13 x 12 x 12,5 cm Metropolitan Museum, New York Funerary figurine (Ushabti or Shawabty) of Nectanebo II, pale turquoise faience, c. 360– 342 BCE The Cleveland Museum of Art Wedjat Eye Amulet, c. 1,070–664 BCE, Egypt, faience and aragonite, 6,5 cm large Metropolitan Museum, New York Chalice in the form of a blue lotus, Tuna el-Gebel region, faience, ca. 945–664 BCE Metropolitan Museum, New York Ushabtis and box, limestone, c. 1279–1213 BCE Metropolitan Museum, New York Canopic jars with lids representing the sons of Horus, travertine, from Upper Egypt, Thebes (?), c. 664–525 BCE Metropolitan Museum, New York Bust of Nefertiti, limestone, plaster & paint, 1352–1336 BCE, from Amarna / Egyptian Museum of Berlin Head of a princess, from Thutmose workshop, brown quartzite, circa 1345 BCE / Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin Detail with Akhenaten’s daughters, Tell el-Amarna, c. 1345–1335 BCE, painted plaster, 40 x 165 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Heart-scarab amulet, glazed and inlay, c. 1375–1275BCE British Museum, London Apopis, relief from the temple of Horus, Idfū, Egypt