The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt From New Kingdoms onwards

Background: 18th dynasty

Places:
Thebes: the place of royal burial(stone-built temples and rock-cut tombs); Memphis, Heliopolis
(mudbrick houses);

The King
The Royal funerary complex
The valley of the Kings
The burial chambers: the Book of the Hidden Chamber
The Royal tomb was conceived as a microcosm representing the underworld.
The location of the funerary cult of the dead king: near the river, housing deities functioning like a
state temple in many ways (Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, next to Mentuhotep II in eleventh
dynasty)

The plan of the funerary temple of King Hatshepsut:

1. First court
2. Ramp
3. Lower colonnade
4. Second court
5. Hathor shrine
6. Middle colonnade with scenes showing the expedition to Punt
7. Middle colonnade with scenes showing the divine birth of Hatshepsut and her ka
8. Anubis shrine
9. Upper colonnade
10. Cult chapel of Hatshepsut
11. Cult chapel of Thutmose I
12. Upper court
13. Sun court
14. Sanctuary

State temples: dedicated to the cults of the national gods, a microcosm.

The hypostyle Hall symbolises swamp

Plan of the temple of Amun and it's precinct at Karnak p. 132

1. first pylon (30th dynasty)
2. Colonnade of Taharqa
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15. Hatshepsut's boat shrine underpinning the legitimacy of her reign replaced by Thutmose III

the temple of Luxor

Palace: mudbrick
a large palace complex at Malqata built by Amenhotep III: residential quarters and ceremonial
areas (heb-see celebration)
法 老 在 全 国 各 地 有 大 量 的 宫 殿 ， 作 为 ： Royal residences, administrative centers and
ceremonial settings for ritual appearances of king
throne dais

Gurob (in Fayom) and the New Kingdom "Harim" Palace

"standard" layout of the king's palace: residential (as at Malkata), ceremonial (as at Memphis
with the Merenptah), or symbolic (as in the temple palaces)

The decoration of Egyptian palaces may mirror the use of the rooms they decorated

Non-Royal tomb chapels

private burials at Thebes continued to be made in the 17th dynasty cemetery on the plain near
the modern village of Drawing Abu el-Naga