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  2. Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative tradition whose ...

  3. Graffito of Esmet-Akhom - Wikipedia

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    As it was located in the far south of Egypt, it was historically an important place of pilgrimage for followers of the Egyptian religion to the south of Egypt, particularly the populace of the Kingdom of Kush (c. 1000 BC – 350 AD). [5] The inscriptions were carved on a gateway that was added to the temple by the Roman emperor Hadrian (r.

  4. Sidelock of youth - Wikipedia

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    drawing of an Ancient Egyptian child, depicted naked with the sidelock of youth. New Kingdom. Museo Egizio, Turin. Rameses II represented as a child with his sidelock. The sidelock of youth (also called a Horus lock, Prince's lock, Princess' lock, lock of childhood or side braid) was an identifying characteristic of the child in Ancient Egypt.

  5. List of Egyptian artists - Wikipedia

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    Daria Gamsaragan (1907–1986), Egyptian-born Armenian sculptor, novelist; Hussein El Gebaly (1934–2014), painter; Habib Gorgi (1892–1965), landscape painter; Sherin Guirguis (born 1974), contemporary artist

  6. Turin Erotic Papyrus - Wikipedia

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    A detail of the erotic section. The final two thirds of Turin Erotic Papyrus consist of a series of twelve vignettes showing men and women in various sexual positions. [1] The men in the illustrations are "scruffy, balding, short, and paunchy" with exaggeratedly large genitalia [4] and do not conform to Egyptian standards of physical attractiveness.

  7. Category:Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian art by type (3 C) Egyptian artefact types (10 C, 48 P) Ancient Egyptian artists (3 C, 2 P) E. Egyptological collections (11 C, 18 P) P.

  8. Portraiture in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Nefertiti bust, from the 18th dynasty, New kingdom Egyptian death mask from the 18th dynasty. Louvre, Paris portrait of Meritamun, 19th dynasty of Egypt. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray "the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist ... to communicate essential information about the object itself". [1]

  9. N. de Garis Davies - Wikipedia

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    Norman de Garis and Nina M. Davies. The Egyptologists Nina M. Davies (6 January 1881 – 21 April 1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–5 November 1941) [1] were a married couple of illustrators and copyists who worked in the early and mid-twentieth century drawing and recording paintings in Egypt.