Ancient Egypt Art and Architecture through the Middle Kingdom

Palaeolithic700, BCE Saharan Neolithic Early Middle Late Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada I (Amratian) Naqada II (Gerzean) Naqada III (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th -30 th ) d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian Ptolemaic Roman30 BCE-642 CE

Nile Valley and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period

Hierakonpolis

Badarian pottery (British Museum) Naqada II pot (Metropolitan Museum) Assorted Old Kingdom pottery from Giza

Kylix by Euergides, circa 500 BC (British Museum)

Diorite statue of Khafra, 4 th Dyn, from his valley temple (Egyptian Museum)

The Narmer Palette, 64 x 42 cm, from Hierokonpolis (Egyptian Museum)

Opening the Mouth ritual from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, 19 th Dyn, from Thebes (British Museum)

Judgment scene from the Book of the Dead.of Hunefer: Egypt’s fourteen gods seated in judgment; Anubis brings Hunefer into the judgment hall; Anubis weighs his heart as Ammit awaits the result and Thoth records; Horus presents Hunefer to Osiris, seated in his shrine with Isis and Nephthys British Museum

Development of the Benben stone: 1.Hypothetical original 2.As hieroglyphs in Pyramid Texts 3.Round-top stelae from Hierakonpolis (6 m) 4.Hieroglyph at Amarna (18 th Dyn) 5.Shown on a temple at Amarna 6.Granite stone at Abgig, Fayum (12 th Dyn; m) 7.Profile of 5 th -Dyn Sun Temple, Abu Ghurab 8.Hieroglyph at Amarna 9.Pyramidion from pyramid of Khendjer (13 th Dyn), Saqqara 10.Granite obelisk of Senusret I (12 th Dyn), Helipolois (20.4 m)

Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)

Boat Procession from the Red Chapel at Karnak (18 th Dyn)

Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn) Heb-sed ritual court

Entrance and restored elevation of the Pavilion of the South, papyriform columns of the Pavilion of the North; Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)

Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn) The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4 th Dyn)

Painted niche-stone, Saqqara

Painted Limestone stele of Wepemnofret and 3D enhanced detail, Giza, 4 th Dyn (Hearst Museum)

Serdab statues of Rahotep and Nofret, 4h Dyn (Egyptian Museum)

Graywacke triad statue of pharaoh Menkaura with Hathor and a nome goddess (0.63 m), 4 th Dyn (Egyptian Museum)

Mastaba of Vizier Mereruka, Saqqara, 6 th Dyn: funeral statue in front of his false door, plan, and detail of the wall relief

Wooden statues with painted stucco (now in the Egyptian Museum) in the serdab of Mitri’s mastaba at Saqarra, 6 th Dyn

Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit (1.19 m) from Deir el Bahari, 11 th Dyn (Egyptian Museum)

Atum leads Senusret I to Min-Amun relief from Senusret’s White Chapel at Karnak, 12 th Dyn

Outer coffin of Djehutynakht (2.63 m long), 11 th - 12 th Dyn, from Deir el-Bersha (Museum of Fine Arts)

Exterior and scenes from the rock-cut tomb of Khnumhotep II, nomarch under Amenemhat II and Senusret II, 12 th Dyn, Beni Hasan; right: detail of Asiatics (Aamu)