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Ancient Egypt
Ms. McKinney
FSMS
2010
Introduction
More than five
thousand years
ago, people living
along the banks of
the Nile River built
a rich and powerful
kingdom.
This kingdom,
known as Ancient
Egypt. Lasted
thousands of years.
Gods and goddesses
In ancient Egypt,
people worshiped
hundreds of gods
and goddesses.
They believed that
their gods created
the world and looked
after it. Many
Egyptian gods are
shown with animal
heads
Pharaoh
1369-1332 BC: Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten
The king of Egypt was
called the Pharaoh.
As the most powerful
person in the whole
country, he was in charge
of all the land and all the
people.
People thought the
Pharaoh was a living god.
They came from all over
Egypt to ask him to
solve their problems and
settle their arguments.
On special occasions,
the Pharaoh wore a
crown and a false beard.
Ancient
Egypt
Profiles and Paintings
Profiles and Paintings
Egyptian artists had to follow rigid rules
about certain things.
There is a code, or a set of rules for
producing the artwork.
The style is called frontalism.
In reliefs or paintings, frontalism means that
the head of the character is always drawn
in profile.
Profiles and Paintings
• In all Egyptian wall paintings, the eye faced out
to the viewer.
• Egyptians painted all body parts in the most
easily and quickly recognizable position.
• Although the face is drawn in profile, the eye is
drawn from the front.
• The upper body is seen from the front.
• The legs are turned to the same side as the head,
with one foot placed in front of the other.
• Every figure, in paintings or sculptures, stands or
sits with a formal, stiff, and rigid posture.
Profiles and Paintings
This is an Egyptian tomb painting depicting a group of men carrying
things to be placed in the tomb.
Egyptian tomb painting is narrative, it tells stories.
Cartouche
• Indicates that the text
enclosed is a royal name
• Believed that you had to
have your name written
down somewhere, so that
you would not disappear
when you died.
•By
By attaching a
cartouche to their
sarcophagus, people
made sure their name was
written down in one place
at least!
Egyptian Profiles
Most figures in Egyptian wall paintings who wear jewelry wear
necklaces reflecting the society's worship of the sun.
If taken off and laid flat, the beads and other decorations on these
pieces radiate out from the central hole like rays of the sun.
Your project:
Egyptian SelfSelf-Portrait •
Profile
Decoration in Egyptian
dress was mostly in
thecollar.
•
The patterns used were
made with either beads,
jewels, embroidery or
painted leather pieces.
•
A favorite Egyptian motifs
was the Lotus flower.
•
The Egyptian artist had at
his disposal six colors---red,
red,
colors--
yellow, blue, green, black
and white.
•
Student work by 5th graders at West Elementary School
Jefferson City, Missouri
In much Egyptian art,
females were painted using
an ocher (yellowish) color.
Males were depicted in a
reddish brown color.
Ancient Egypt
Architecture and Sculpture
Architecture and Sculpture
When the first Egyptian Pharaohs died, their mummies
were placed inside pyramids, which were gigantic stone
tombs with sloping sides. Some pyramids are still standing!
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/history-archaeology-news/egypt-fossils-wcvin.html
Architecture and Sculpture
The Pharaohs were buried with magnificent treasures to take
with them into the next world, but tomb robbers broke into many
of the pyramids and stole the treasures!
Architecture and Sculpture
A Sphinx is half
man half lion.
The role of a
sphinx was to
guard the temple
or burial sites.
Sphinxes are
found all over the
world not just in
Ancient Egypt.
Architecture and
Sculpture
•Obelisks
Obelisks were
prominent in the
architecture of the
ancient Egyptians, who
placed them in pairs at
the entrance of temples.
•The
The obelisk symbolized
the sun god Ra, was said
to be a petrified (turned
into stone) ray of the
sun
• It was also thought that
the god existed within
the structure.
Ancient Egypt
Mummies
The Mummy
A mummy is a dead body
that has been embalmed and
wrapped in bandages to
preserve it for thousands of
years.
The Egyptians believed
that dead people went to live
in another world, where the
Ka, or spirit, would need a
body to live in for all eternity.
To keep dead bodies
from rotting, the Egyptians
made them into mummies.
The Mummy
The
Canopic
Jars had
the heads
of Horus,
god of the
sky, four
sons.
•To
To make a mummy the dead
body was first washed in brine.
•The
The brain was pulled out
through the nose!
•They
They put the insides (lungs,
liver, stomach, and intestines)
into four jars called Canopic
jars.
•The
The purpose of a Canopic jar
is function because it holds the
organs of the mummy.
•The
The body was stuffed with
sawdust or rags and herbs
•They
They rubbed the body with oil
and wrapped it in bandages
made of linen.
•When
When the mummy was place in
its coffin, piles of salt were
packed around the body to dry
it out
Sarcophagus
•Often
Often gold masks
covered the mummy’s
face.
•Some
Some mummies were
placed into sarcophagi,
stone coffins, decorated
with gold and precious
gems.
•These
These sarcophagi
looked like the person
that was inside of them.
•The
The main purpose of a
sarcophagus is
functional because it is
used to hold a body.