Recent Posts Tagged With 'hierakonpolis'

• My Ideal Survey Text: Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian Art

  Posted on Thursday June 26th, 2008 at 13:38 in egyptian, djoser, hierakonpolis, my ideal survey text, predynastic, tomb 100, early dynastic, palette of narmer

  The section in Gardners’ on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian art has six figures, but two of those have multiple parts. I found that the sequence of works in Gardners’ worked well. Nevertheless, I would suggest the following impr...

• Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 09:03 in cairo, egyptian museum, egyptian, in situ, hierakonpolis, predynastic, tomb 100

  First and foremost, Gardner’s does not publish a photo of the actual wall painting, but only a watercolor copy.  Second, Gardner’s crops it.  The website of Francesco Raffaele has a large image of the complete watercolor, as well as a h...

• Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: An Overview

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 08:14 in egyptian, djoser, narmer, hierakonpolis, predynastic, early dynastic, egyptian art

  Following the Neolithic - and the Bronze and Stone Age prehistoric material that I would have appended to it - I turned to Egypt. I deviated from the standard placement of the Ancient Near East at the beginning of the trajectory of the Western artis...