IV. Egyptian Art Part 1: Kings, Power, and the Divine DU1701 Periods of Art History I Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D. 450842@mail.muni.cz 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, ca. 3000-2920 BCE, ca. 63,5 cm Cairo, Egyptian Museum Palette in form of a fish, ca. 3000 BCE 8,7 x 18,5 x 1,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum Palette, Nagada III period, ca. 3150 BCE British Museum – Ashmolean Museum Jasper cylinder seal with monstrous lions (serpopards) and eagles with lion heads, Uruk period, ca. 4100-3000 BCE Paris, Musée du Louvre (Left) the crown of Lower Egypt and (right) the crown of Upper Egypt, worn by King Sesostris III, relief on door lintels at Madāmūd, ca. 1878–1843 BCE Cairo, Egyptian Museum Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII between the goddesses Wadjet (symbolizing lower Egypt) and Nekhbet (symbolizing upper Egypt) relief from the Temple of Edfu, Egypt, 2nd century BCE Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 BCE) offering to Hathor Roman Mammisi, Dendera Temple complex Statue of King Haremheb with Horus ca. 1343–1315 BCE 153 x 73 x 77 cm place of origin unknown Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum Osiris on a Throne, 7.8 x 6.9 x 15 cm ca. 664-595 BCE Baltimore, Walters Art Museum Priest Holding the Figure of Osiris, ca. 665-650 BCE 57 x 14 x 26 cm, from Karnak Baltimore, Walters Art Museum Seated Scribe, ca. 2620–2500 B.C.E., Old Kingdom, painted limestone, inlay for the eyes, found in Saqqara Paris, Musée du Louvre Scribe and Official, ca. 670-650 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment (Egyptian blue, indigo), (18.4 × 3.8 × 26.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.18. Haremhab royal scribe, New Kingdom, ca. 1336–1323 BCE, from Memphis (?), granodiorite, H: 113 cm / New York, Metropolitan Museum Scribe, Old Kingdom, 2400 BCE, 38,5 x 27,3 x 16,5 cm, pink granite Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, ca. 2667–2648 BCE Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of king Djoser, ca. 2630–2611 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza, Pharaoh Khufu, ca. 2580–2560 BC Valley of the Kings, in use from ca. 16th to 11th century BCE ‘Book of the Dead’, Papyrus of Ani ca. 1,250 BCE, from Upper Egypt (Thebes) London, British Museum Book of the Dead of Hunefer, royal scribe, ca. 1,310 BCE, 45.7 x 83.4 cm, Thebes, Egypt London, British Museum Death mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ca. 1,323 BCE, discovered in 1925 by Howard Carter in the Valley of Kings Cairo, Egyptian Museum Tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, 3D reconstruction, ca. 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 New York, Metropolitan Museum Bust of Nefertiti, limestone, plaster & paint, ca. 1352– 1336 BCE, from Amarna Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum House altar representing Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their three daughters under the Aton, ca.1351–1334 BCE Berlin, Staatliche Museen Head of a princess, from Thutmose workshop, brown quartzite, ca. 1345 BCE Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum Detail with Akhenaten’s daughters, Tell el-Amarna, painted plaster 40 x 165 cm, ca. 1345–1335 BCE Oxford, Ashmolean Museum