1. Law and Order (… was not just a TV show)
Ancient Egypt
Law and Order
(… was not just a TV show)

2. EGYPT

5. Ancient Egypt – when? Old Kingdom c. 3050- Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom c BCE … .
Ptolemaic [kings named Ptolemy]: Greek dynasty
BCE (Cleopatra is last one)
(used in the reading by Manning)

6. Ma‘at (or Maat) Divine order
Order in the universe (nature) and in society
Harmony: maintain proper relations
Defines responsibility for both rulers and subjects

7. The Goddess Maat

8. The Offering of Maat (or Presentation of Maat)

9. Ramses III presenting Maat to Osiris

10. Temple of Karnak

11. Temple of Karnak

13. Scribes
Horemheb (after Tut) 14C

14. Tomb of Rekhmire, vizier, 1400s BCE

16. Rekhmire, vizier, 1400s BCE
"in session to listen (to cases) in the hall of the vizier”
"dispensing justice impartially and attentive to satisfying both parties, judging between the poor and the rich in the same way, no petitioner crying because of him.”
Impartial and fair
Thutmose III. In ANET. …

17. The Afterlife in The Book of the Dead
L, heart in canopic jar; R, feather upright & curving to top left

19. The Contending (Contest) of Horus and Seth
Seth L. had Upper Egypt (South); Horus (R.) had Lower (N.)