CFI-UF 101 : CFI Egyptian Art .docx

• School: New York University
• Department: Cultural Foundations I
• Course: CFI-UF 101
• Professor: Martin Reichert

Document Summary

Egypt and egyptology: backbone of egypt is the niles river, crop thrive from rich soil, rosetta stone: 3 languages . Demotic (late egyptian, greek and one in formal hieroglyphic: hieroglyphs were signs of a once-spoken language. Predynastic and early dynastic periods (around 3500 bce: egypt was split geographically and politically into upper egypt (hunting) and. Mastabas: standard tomb type, rectangular brick or stone structure, false door through which the ka (soul) could join the world of the living, serdab: small room housing a statue of the deceased. Great pyramids of gizeh: tomb for the 4th dynasty pharaohs khufu, khafre and menkaure, great pyramids are symbols of the sun, an entire funerary complex, pharaoh"s burial chamber, mortuary temple and the valley temple, mortuary: priests made offerings. Image of khafre: sphinx: a lion with a human head (associated with the sun god, combination of human intelligence with strength of the lion.