Egyptian art in the Old Kingdom

Palette of king Narmer, siltstone, Early Dynastic, Dynasty I, ca. 3000 B.C.E., Hierakonpolis, Cairo Museum

Step pyramid, and statue of king Zoser at Saqqara, mostly limestone, designed by Imhotep; Dynasty III, ca. 2600 B.C.E.

Pyramids of Cheops (Khufu) (ca. 2530 B.C.E.), Chephren (Khafre) (ca. 2500B.C.E.), Mycerinus (Menkaure) (2470 B.C.E.), all at Giza, limestone, Dynasty IV

Sphinx from the funerary complex of Chephren, ca. 2500 B.C.E.

Seated statue of Chephren from Giza, diorite, Cairo Museum, ca. 2500 B.C.E.

Standing group of Mycerinus and his queen/goddess from Giza, slate, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ca. 2470 B.C.E.

Ankh-haf, c. 2500 BCE, plastered limestone, painted Dynasty IV, Giza, MFA Boston

Seated Scribe, Saqqara, 2450 B.C.E. painted limestone, Louvre

Dwarf Seneb and his family, statue group from Giza, Dynasty IV, Cairo Museum, ca. 2500 B.CE.

Painted limestone relief from the tomb of Ti at Saqqara, Dynasty V; hunting hippopotami; ca. 2400 B.C.E.