4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 With the decentralization of power in the First Intermediate Peri...Figure 4.2 The pyramid at Saqqara of the last ruler of the 5th dynasty, King...Figure 4.3 Starting in First Intermediate Period, non‐royals had mortuary te...Figure 4.4 Because Pepy II became king as a young boy, his mother acted init...Figure 4.5 This very nicely carved hieroglyphic text, on limestone (the segm...Figure 4.6 This limestone stele, which measures 37 by 45 cm and is said to h...Figure 4.7 With the creation of a new dynasty in Thebes, artists there start...
5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 This 46‐cm‐high statue carved from graywacke stone shows the head...Figure 5.2 In the Middle Kingdom, provincial governors were able to pass the...Figure 5.3 Senusret I started the development of the Amun temple at Karnak i...Figure 5.4 The find of a collection of letters and accounts belonging to a p...Figure 5.5 This 18‐cm‐high wooden statuette is an execration figurine, that ...Figure 5.6 Middle Kingdom Egypt constructed multiple fortresses along the 2n...FIGURE 5.7 This stele was set up in Abydos by the brother of Rehuerdjersen, ...
6 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 This 55‐cm‐high limestone funerary stele was made for an official...Figure 6.2 Detail of the Rhind mathematical papyrus. British Museum, London ...Figure 6.3 This 7.8‐cm‐high double vase onto which the images of lotus flowe...Figure 6.4 This 11‐cm‐high ceramic beaker is typical for the archaeological ...Figure 6.5 The rulers of Kerma during the Classical Kerma phase had themselv...Figure 6.6 Since the Kerma state at the time of the Second Intermediate Peri...
7 Chapter 7Map 3 Egypt and surrounding territories in the New KingdomFigure 7.1 Chariots were introduced in Egypt at the start of the New Kingdom...Figure 7.2 The images painted on the walls of the tombs of government offici...Figure 7.3 The reliefs carved on the walls of Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple a...Figure 7.4 This 213‐cm‐high limestone statue of Hatshepsut, which was origin...Figure 7.5 Many years after the start of Thutmose III’s sole rule over Egypt...Figure 7.6 Senenmut, represented here holding Hatshepsut’s daughter Nefrura,...Map 4 Western ThebesFigure 7.7 The image is a modern facsimile of a detail from the elaborate de...Figure 7.8 The Amun temple at Karnak was the most important religious comple...
8 Chapter 8Map 5 Egypt’s Syrian dependencies in the Amarna ageFigure 8.1 Amenhotep III commissioned numerous monuments of enormous size, i...Figure 8.2 Queen Tiye was represented numerous times, alone and with her hus...Figure 8.3 The imagery carved on the walls of the Luxor temple in eastern Th...Figure 8.4 Ramose, who was Egypt’s vizier under Amenhotep III and Akhenaten,...Figure 8.5 Early in his reign Akhenaten set up colossal statues of himself a...Figure 8.6 The extent of the building projects King Akhenaten commissioned m...Figure 8.7 King Tutankhamun’s tomb is famous for the incredible wealth of th...
9 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 One of the most important king lists preserved is the one carved ...Figure 9.2 One of the most famous monuments of Rameses II is his temple at A...Figure 9.3 During the New Kingdom, several Syrian cults entered Egypt, and t...Figure 9.4 Although Rameses II had multiple wives, queen Nefertari was his f...Figure 9.5 A large number of objects found throughout Egypt are associated w...Figure 9.6 The remains of the village of Deir el‐Medina show how a community...Figure 9.7 Among the inhabitants of Deir el‐Medina were the artists who deco...
10 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 This 44.5‐cm‐high quartzite head, with traces of blue paint on t...Figure 10.2 Rameses III’s major monument was his mortuary temple at Medinet ...Figure 10.3 The Papyrus Harris I, or the Great Harris Papyrus, was originall...Figure 10.4 The most elaborate depictions of Rameses III’s battles against t...Figure 10.5 The “Israel” stele of King Merenptah. Found in his funerary temp...Figure 10.6 The images Rameses III commissioned to celebrate his victories o...
11 Chapter 11Map 6 Late Period EgyptFigure 11.1 While the power of the kings of the 21st dynasty was much less t...Figure 11.2 Found in his previously undisturbed tomb at Tanis, the gold mumm...Figure 11.3 When tomb robberies in the late New Kingdom and later threatened...Figure 11.4 Although Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period had lost its imp...Figure 11.5 The God’s Wife of Amun at Thebes became a very important religio...Figure 11.6 In the 15th century the Egyptian king Thutmose III had founded a...Figure 11.7 King Piy’s victory stele in every respect is a work of great art...
12 Chapter 12Map 7 The eastern Mediterranean in the 1st millenniumFigure 12.1 King Esarhaddon of Assyria commemorated his invasion of Egypt wi...Figure 12.2 In the Late Period, priests, bureaucrats, and others were still ...Figure 12.3 The Nubian kings of Napata, both those who controlled Egypt and ...Figure 12.4 Relief sculpture of the Late Period could be of very high qualit...Figure 12.5 An example of the interest in the past is this inscription on st...Figure 12.6 The period of independence from Persia in the 4th century was no...Figure 12.7 Although the Apis bull was honored from the very beginning of Eg...
13 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Alexandria in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods was a Greek city i...Figure 13.2 The continuation of Egyptian customs while Greeks and Romans rul...Figure 13.3 In the Ptolemaic and Roman eras royal depictions on temples main...Figure 13.4 The Ptolemaic kings expressed their rights to rule Egypt by repr...Figure 13.5 The mixture of Greek and Egyptian practices is shown on this 52....Figure 13.6 The Nubian kingdom continued certain ancient Egyptian practices ...Figure 13.7 The Nubians in the first few centuries ad merged their religious...Figure 13.8 In the early decades of the common era Amanitore was queen of Me...
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