Reference no: EM13736441

Question 1. On stelae reliefs, items such as food depicted between deceased and the vertical boarders on right were most symbolic of ______________.

Question 2. During the 5th and 6th Dynasties, high ranking officials who ruled over remote areas were able to request the best and highest ranking royal artists from the capital cities to decorate their tombs.

True

False

Question 3. According to our text, after Pepy II's reign, the one centralized power collapsed and eventually reformed around what two central cities?

a. Thebes and Memphis

b. Giza and Herakleopolis

c. Memphis and Giza

d. Thebes and Herakleopolis

Question 4. Select all the figure characteristics that were typical of the First Intermediate Period:

a. Small eyes

b. Thick prominent lips

c. Intricate surface details

d. Defined musculature

Question 5. On funerary stelae in the Old Kingdom versus those in the First Intermediate period, how were the figures positioned differently in front of offerings?

Question 6. In pre-unification Theban relief style (the final stage of Upper Egyptian style), how were the facial features of relief and sculptures represented?

Question 7. Middle and Old Kingdom Egypt share a similar style when depicting offerings that was different than the First Intermediate Period. Explain the most prominent differences.

Question 8. What was one of the most distinctive body characteristic of the mature male figure in the First Intermediate Period?

Question 9. This relief fragment depicts one of the many wives of ________________, and is one of the only surviving pieces from his funerary complex at Deir el-Bahri.

Question 10. On a (stolen) statue in King NebhepetraMontuhotep's temple, the side of the throne is decorated with a sematawy emblem. What did this symbolize?

Question 11. The highly colored stela of Inhurnakht and his wife had several characteristics typical of the First Intermediate Period. This comes from the ___________________ cemetery in Upper Egypt.

Question 12. The area around Dendera in Upper Egypt served as a cult center for which goddess?__________

Question 13. According to our text, what is the likely political reason that the Egyptian government faced that caused became decentralized?

Question 14. After Egypt was reunified under a centralized government in the 11th Dynasty, what were some the relief figure characteristics that changed?

Question 15. If offerings in a funerary stela do not touch or overlap, the piece is most likely from which period?

First Intermediate Period

a. Middle Kingdom

b. Old Kingdom

c. Amarna Period

Question 16. At the dawn of Middle Kingdom, a new type of statue was introduced. Known as the ‘____________' statue, the figure is seated on the ground with knees drawn up to the chest and is wrapped in a tightly fitted garment.

Question 17. In the Middle Kingdom, coffins would often have a __________________ on the east side that the deceased would face while laying on their left side.