Ancient Egypt Midterm Lecture Review

Flashcards covering key artifacts, archaeological sites, and architectural features from the Neolithic Period through the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt.

Merimde clay head

A clay artifact from the Neolithic Period.

Naqada I Figurines

Ivory items usually found in tombs during the Naqada I period.

Badarian Culture

A culture characterized by black-topped redware and white-painted ware ceramics, primarily found in graves.

White Cross-lined Ware

A type of Naqada I pottery usually found in tombs.

Siltstone Palettes

Items from the Naqada I period often found in graves.

Decorated Ware

A type of Naqada II pottery usually found in tombs.

Tomb 100

A Naqada II tomb in Hierakonpolis featuring paint on a mudbrick wall.

HK 6 cemetery

A cemetery in Hierakonpolis from the Naqada II period containing numerous animal burials, including 17 cattle, 11 baboons, and 2 elephants.

Stela of Djet

A limestone monument from Dynasty 1 found at Abydos (Umm el-Qaab).

Narmer Palette

A greywacke artifact from Dynasty 1 found at Hierakonpolis.

Umm el-Qaab

A necropolis in Abydos featuring mudbrick tombs from Dynasties 1-2, including the tombs of rulers like Narmer, Aha, Djer, Djet, Den, and Meretneith.

Khasekhemwy

A Second Dynasty ruler whose mudbrick funerary enclosure is located at Abydos and whose limestone statue was found at Hierakonpolis.

Nemes

The specific headdress shown on the "Khafre Enthroned" statue.

Khafre and Horus statue ("Khafre Enthroned")

A Fourth Dynasty statue made of gneiss (black stone) from Giza.

Step Pyramid of Djoser

A stone structure located in Saqqara dating to the Third Dynasty.

Hemiunu

The likely architect of the Great Pyramid; a limestone statue of him was found in his Fourth Dynasty tomb in Giza.

Menkaure triad

A Fourth Dynasty greywacke sculpture depicting Menkaure and a queen, found in the Menkaure valley temple at Giza.

Unas' burial chamber

A Fifth Dynasty chamber in Saqqara featuring carvings and paint on limestone walls.

Mastaba

An Old Kingdom private tomb form built of stone, consisting of a burial shaft, burial chamber, chapel, serdab, and statue.

Serdab

A specific component of an Old Kingdom mastaba tomb meant for a statue.

False door

A Fifth Dynasty feature found in the Mastaba of Ti at Saqqara, composed of carvings and paint on stone.

Rahotep and Nofret

The subjects of Fourth Dynasty painted limestone statues found in a mastaba in Meidum.

Stela of Maaty and Dedwi

A painted limestone stela from the First Intermediate Period (FIP), likely from Naga ed-Deir.