Exam 3: Art of Ancient Egypt

The great Greek historian __________ said "Egypt is the gift of the Nile."

King Tutankhamun's mummified body was enclosed in three nested coffins with the innermost made of __________.

The Egyptian life spirit or life force is called the __________.

Each of the separate areas of the Great Temple of Amun was separated by a massive ________with tapering walls.

Discuss the development of Egyptian funerary architecture and its related imagery.

The Egyptians believed that the seat of the soul was the __________.

The _________design of New Kingdom temples created a processional path from the outside to the inner sanctuary where only priests and kings were allowed.

Explain the reason behind the naming of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

Egyptians who could not afford elaborate tombs commissioned funerary _________ as personal monuments meant to memorialize them and to inspire the living to make them offerings.

Embalmers sometimes placed____________ in the wrappings of mummified bodies to help the dead survive the tests of Osiris.

King Tutankhamun's tomb was found in the_________.

The _________period saw dramatic changes in the conventions used in royal art.

The Great Sphinx is thought to be a portrait of __________.

Why do we believe that Nefertiti's beauty was NOT exaggerated in her portrait busts?

In the art of the Early Dynastic period after the unification of Egypt, we see an __________________.

In the Old Kingdom, rulers were typically portrayed as ___________figures, wearing the royal kilt and head cloth.

How was Hatshepsut portrayed as a female pharaoh?

Like most New Kingdom temples, the Temple of Hatshepsut is built along a(n) ________.

While the construction materials for tombs were very durable, ancient Egyptians used simple _________for more ordinary dwellings.

How is domestic life in the Middle Kingdom represented in tomb art?