Quiz Ancient Art: Tombs and Treasures

Question 1 Use this image to identify:

1. What is this?

2. Where is it located?

3. What king was buried there?

Question 2 Each funerary complex had a ________________ that housed a statue of the king and it was believed the king's ka could manifest itself in it.

-serdab

-uraeus

-boat

-mastaba

Question 3 How would the Horus falcon be positioned to represent protection to a king?

QUESTION 4 What type of stone was the most common building material of royal pyramids?

-Facience

-White limestone

-Red limestone

-Lapis lazuli

QUESTION 5 Imagine you've been commissioned to create a relief panel for a non-royal funerary temple. Write an essay (two paragraph minimum) describing what the panel would look like, including what symbols and hieroglyphics you would include.

QUESTION 6 Which is largest pyramid to be built in Egypt?

-The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur

-The Step Pyramid at Saqqara

-The Great Pyramid at Giza

-The Red Pyramid at Dahshur

UESTION 7 The event in which the deity statues were carried in a sacred boat from Karnak to Luxor, and then back again, was called the:

-Harvest Tribute

-Offering Ritual

-Opet festival

-Sedfesstival

QUESTION 8 The headdresses of queens in the Fifth Dynasty were associated to which deities?

-Hathor

-Nekhbet

-Wadjet

-Isis

QUESTION 9 Which of these is NOT a traditional element of a pyramid?

-Open Court

-Offering Room

-Burial Chamber

-Afterlife Room

QUESTION 10 What is a uraeus?

QUESTION 11 Many pyramid complexes has temples dedicated to the sun god known as ________________?

QUESTION 12 The statuette of Katep is Hetepheres is the only known one in which the female is depicted as a larger figure than the male.

-True

-False

QUESTION 13 Two idealized formal figures of male existed - one representing youth and one representing maturity. Select the two reasons that only one idealized figure existed for the female?

-She had little to no human rights in Egyptian culture

-She traditionally could not hold government office

-She was not born of royal blood

-She was shown only as youthful to represent fertility

QUESTION 14 Give three examples of how the male figure was changed proportionally in the Sixth Dynasty.