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Egyptian Art Day 2: Sculpture Khafra (c. 2,500 B.C.) Khafra Ka The Egyptian name for soul Ka Statue The statue that would hold the soul. Found in the Serdab Commission Paying the artist to create an artwork to your specifications Serdab The small chamber where the Ka statue was kept. Usually inside the ‘false door’ False Door Leads to the serdab. Priests and family made offerings here. Menkaura and His Queen (c. 2,500 B.C) Menkaura and His Queen Idealize: To make without flaws; to make perfect Stylize: To design or represent something rather than create it realistically. Seated Scribe (c. 2,400 B.C) Hatshepsut as Sphinx (c. 1460 B.C.) Bust: sculpture of the head, neck and shoulders Nefertiti (c. 1350 B.C.) King Tut’s Tomb Necropolis: city of the dead Valley of the Kings: a necropolis valley where tombs were built for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings King Tut’s Coffin crook and a flail: (flail used to thresh grain)-symbols of the god osiris Cartouche: a symbol - oval made by the loop of a rope that has the persons name (pictograph) within it Inner Coffin of Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus (c. 1330 B.C.) King Tut Faience (fay-ans): an early glaze. A glass paste was put on objects and then fired, creating a smooth shiny surface Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun (c. 1330 B.C.) * * Painted Limestone BUST- sculpture of the head, neck and shoulders This was actually discovered in an art studio of Thutmose Refined, regular featuers, long neck, and heavy eye-lids make her “too perfect” to be human but very realistic Part of the beauty of the bust is from the artists dramatic use of color - some representation of cosmetics in the ancient time especially lips and eyes Crystals were inlayed into her eyes- though one is missing Married to Ahkenatun- Nefertiti has been depicted as ruling beside him- even once shown in a stance ready to kill the enemy. Khafra commissioned many stone portraits of himself to keep