ARTHI 6A Lecture 1: ARTHI 6 Notes (lectures up to the midterm)
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The layers have been buried over time: circles: 30-100 feet, walls: 6 feet high, parts of the enclosures, ladders may have been used if people were supposed to get inside. The third stone was then placed on top: what is it, ideas, an observatory, a clock, a calendar, a burial, solstice altar stone, one stone in the center matches perfectly with the summer solstice. 3400 bce: buried with grave goods , animal palettes for cosmetics (3600-3200 bce, narmer palette (3000-2920 bce, represents the unification lower and upper. Egypt: killing a captive enemy by decapitation, convention, registers: they have lines that break up the different scenes, there are many headless people with their heads between their legs. Narmer is larger than everyone else (hierarchy): god horus is overlooking in his animal form. He"s reaching into the nose of a person and standing on papyrus which is grown in lower.
