During the 5th and 6th Dynasties, high ranking officials who ruled over remote areas were able to request the best and highest ranking royal artists from the capital cities to come and decorate their tombs.
True
False
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According to our text, after Pepy II’s reign, the one centralized power collapsed and eventually reformed around what two central cities?
Thebes and Memphis
Giza and Herakleopolis
Memphis and Giza
Thebes and Herakleopolis
Figures were positioned differently in front of offerings on funerary stelae. Describe the differences between those positions depicted in the Old Kingdom versus the First Intermediate period.
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In pre-unification Theban relief style (the final stage of Upper Egyptian style), which of these is NOT a way in which facial features were represented?
A black band encircles the eye
The nose and ears are smaller and more delicate
A cosmetic line runs from the corner of the eye to the ear
The lips are thick and protruding
What was one of the most distinctive characteristic of the mature male figure in the First Intermediate Period?
Rolls of fat
Broad shoulders
Feet positioned together
Increased musculature
This relief fragment depicts one of the many wives of ________________, and is one of the only surviving pieces from his funerary complex at Deir el-Bahri.
On a (stolen) statue in king Nebhepetra Montuhotep’s temple, the side of the throne is decorated with asema tawyemblem. What did this symbolize?
The King smiting foreigners
Unification of two lands
The spirit moving from ba to ka
Rebirth from the lotus
The highly colored stelae of Inhurnakht and his wife had several characteristics typical of the First Intermediate Period. This comes from the ___________________ cemetery in Upper Egypt
It is strongly believed that this pharaoh help reunite Ancient Egypt:
King Pepy II
King Nebhepetra Montuhotep
Many Herakl
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