Painted and gilded wood on its exterior and earth sand‚ grain‚ linen and wax on its interior. The work of Art dates to C. 332 to 32 B.C. and mainly depicts a painted gilded face of a falcon on a human-shaped coffin symbolizing the Ancient Egyptian god Horus on its exterior and a grey masked Osiris mummy made with earth‚ grain‚ linen‚ and wax inside the coffin. It is located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston which was purchased through Museum Collectors’ funds. The sculpture coffin is medium-sized
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What is art? In an attempt to embody all of its characteristics‚ the Wikipedia Encyclopedia defines art as the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses‚ emotions‚ and/or intellect.[1] The Metternich Stela‚ an ancient work of art located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ corresponds aptly to that definition. The Stela was carefully carved out of a stone called graywacke with mythological depictions to protect Egyptians against
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Particularly‚ fairy tales are usually the most common story told to young children‚ and it exposes them to our society’s values. The story Goldilocks and the Three Bears‚ we learn not use other people materialistic objects that does not belong to us. What we don’t know that most of the stories we heard came back from many generations before we were born. That usually every century has their new version of that fairy tale. Cinderella is clearly the most popular‚ and the old fairy tale that hasn’t
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be acknowledged. These were the people who developed the basic building blocks of architecture‚ furniture and interiors that we use today. They worked hard and strived for perfection. I have decided to look at the Pantheon‚ Parthenon and Temple of Horus as buildings of my inspiration. These buildings are examples of magnificent architecture and over the years people have altered and changed the styles‚ but the basics still remain the same up to today. THE PANTHEON‚
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His greek name is Horus and his egyptian name is Heru‚ and sometimes he was called Horo which means the distant one. Horus was the protector and patron of the pharaoh. Horus soon came the opponent of Seth‚ another god. Horus and Seth were always on opposite sides. Seth was the embodiment of disorder when Horus was the embodiment of order. Horus represented the daytime sky when Seth represented the nighttime sky. Horus was often considered to be Seth’s brother but the
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five days from the moon so that Nut could give birth to Osiris‚ Set‚ Isis‚ Nephthys and Horus the Elder” (Ancient Egypt Online). The day that Osiris was born it was said that he was the god of all gods. Set was immediately spiteful of his brother and would do anything to gain the power he had. Set would later try and kill Osiris because of
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Remarks on the two titles %Dmw and %Dm- sprw at Dendera‚ Edfu and Esna Temples Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina( This paper is focusing on the multifaceted concepts of two titles which are frequently occurred on three of Greco-Roman temples. The first one is sDmw which means literally “Listeners”. It is usually accompanied two groups of deities. Each group has a special iconography‚ epithets‚ roles and offerings such as the divine judges and the protective fierce genni . The second title which means
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she decided to sneak past the enemy camp and inform her own soldiers that their fighting was pointless. It took a lot of convincing but they finally believed her‚ after she had shown them the staff of Horus. With the leader of the army‚ she marched over to enemy lines and presented the staff of Horus to them. The Romans laughed at first because they didn’t worship the Egyptians’ gods. They soon realized that what she was saying was the truth and they reluctantly returned to their city‚ but also relieved
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smiting victim Falcon (Horus/king) perched on papyrus thicket with 6 blossoms holds in claw a rope attached to a head that protrudes from soil on which papyrus thicket grows Falcon (king or god) conquered land of papyrus (Delta or Lower Egypt) 4 of 5 sections represent death-dealing power of king: message centers on war‚ violence‚ death‚ subjection Not peaceful expansion but lethal conflict‚ victory of south over north Dynasty 0 Horus name title: king as incarnation of Horus Irihor (?) “Scorpion”:
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are representing the 5 Gods which are Air‚ Water‚ Fire‚ Light and Earth. The Gods of Air are Shu and Utterance. Besides that‚ the Gods of Water are Tefnut and Isis. The Gods of Fire are Nut and Perception. The Gods of Light are Ra-Heru-khuti-tem and Horus whereas the Gods of Earth are Geb and Nephthys. From the left in the left bottom‚ soul of Hunefer is lead by Anubis who a fox head and holding a key. In the middle part‚ a scale call The Scale of Matt placed in the middle of painting. Deceased’s
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