ARTH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rachel Rosenthal, Helladic Period, Hatshepsut
12 Dec 2014
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Who were two exceptions in terms of egyptian pharaohs, and what made them exceptional: ahkenahten changed egypts religion, and he changed the context and structure of the art works created of him (were not idealized, hatshepsut the first female recorded monarch in history, shes generally portrayed as a male, what does the narmer palette represent, and what is its significance to egyptian. 3 primary pyramids were built over a span of 3 generations: each was part of a royal complex, being buried near the pharaoh was a huge honor and a prized place to spend their afterlife, shape was a solar reference (the people who built the pyramids could move around 340 stones a day from the quarry to the site, would serve as a monument during the pharaohs lifetime, would serve as a dwelling for him and his ka in the afterlife, the mastabas began to be filled with rubble because they were getting robbed.
