01:082:105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Khafra, Great Sphinx Of Giza, Sphinx Head
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Complex of djoser; saqqara: column = cylindrical support, upright or pillar, half or engaged columns: attached to a wall, colonnade = row of columns, shape of column and capital inspired by nature. Monday, 26 september 2016 (papyrus plant): underlie close links between nature and art in the ancient world. 4 cardinal points: s i d e s o f p y r a m i d a r e smooth. , top likely carried a golden pyramidian, changes in religious belief, from horus to sun. God, ra: pyramid are part of one funerary complex, smaller mastabas where burials of the pharaohs family and court of cials, ceremony would have taken place, practical operations (embalming) of body took place in hall near the pyramid. 2750-2544 bce: w o r k f o r c e w a s m a d e u p o f. King khafra from pyramid complex at giza; diorite; ca.
