ARTH 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bunker Hill Monument, Harvard Magazine, Mark Lehner
21 Mar 2017
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Fluted columns are the ridges all the way down. Mastaba: comparison of ziggurat, mastaba, stepped pyramid, great pyramid. Mastabas developed into the stepped pyramids to prevent being robbed. Saqqara, funerary complex & step pyramid of king zoser, c. 2630 bc, reed pilasters. Michael graves, portland public service building, 1979 (postmodernism) Giza: pyramids of khufu (cheops), khafre (chephren) and menkaure (mycerinus) Pyramid of khafre, c. 2550-2460 bc, great sphinx. Etienne boullee, entrance to cemetery, 1780; canova, tomb of archduchess. Maria theresa, vienna, 1805; james henry breasted, jr. , aerial view, 1932; i. m. Deir el-bahari, mortuary temple of queen hatshepsut, c. 1473-1458 bc. Karnak, temple of amun, begun c. 1550 bc. John haviland, halls of justice, ny, 1835-8 (egyptian revival) Elliott erwitt, rosetta stone at the british museum, 1996. Required reading on line: who built the pyramids? by jonathan shaw in. Focus on the evidence and the sequence in which it was discovered by the archaeologist mark lehner and his team.
