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AR 310 Wk. 2 Quiz

1. Use this image to identify: What is this? Where is it located? What king was buried there?

2. Each funerary complex had a that housed a statue of the king and it was believed the king’s ka could manifest itself in it.

· Serdab

· Uraeus

· Boat

· Mastaba

3. How would the Horus falcon be positioned to represent protection to a king?

4. What type of stone was the most common building material of royal pyramids?

· Facience

· White limestone

· Red limestone

· Lapis lazuli

5. Imagine you’ve been commissioned to create a relief panel for a non – royal funerary temple. Write an essay (two paragraph minimum) describing what the panel would look like, including what symbols and hieroglyphics you would include.

6. Which is largest pyramid to be built in Egypt?

· The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur

· The Step Pyramid at Saqqara

· The Great Pyramid at Giza

· The Red Pyramid at Dahshur

7. In figure 47 of our text, the figure of Khabausokar is depicted with a more pronounced stomach and buttocks. What does this mean about the figure?

8. The headdresses of queens in the Fifth Dynasty were associated to which deities?

· Hathor

· Nekhbet

· Wadjet

· Isis

9. Which of these is NOT a traditional element of a pyramid?

· Open Court

· Offering Room

· Burial Chamber

· Afterlife Room

10. What is a Uraeus?

11. Many pyramid complexes has temples dedicated to the sun god known as ?

12. The statuette of Katep is Hetepheres is the only known one in which the female is depicted as a larger figure than the male.

· True

· False

13. Two idealized formal figures of male existed – one representing youth and one representing maturity. Select the two reasons that only one idealized figure existed for the female?

· She had little to no human rights in Egyptian culture

· She traditionally could not hold government office

· She was not born of royal blood

· She was shown only as youthful to represent fertility

14. Give three examples of how the male figure was changed proportionally in the Sixth Dynasty.

15. The event in which the deity statues were carried in a sacred boat from Karnak to Luxor, and then back again, was called the;

· Harvest Tribute

· Offering Ritual

· Opet festival

· Sed fesstival