Ancient
Egyptian Art Project Reflection
Our assignment for the end of the Ancient
Egypt unit is to draw a picture that is going to explain and make others
understand the time period and the people of Ancient Egypt. We had to include
hieroglyphics, registers and symbols.
On my art
work I represent Nefertiti, a pharaoh’s wife named Amenhoptep, and her
mummification process. I have split the paper in two sections. At the left part
I drew Nefertiti’s portrait and at the top of the page I drew the Udjat,
protective eye symbol but also Thoth who was the god of writing and knowledge.
I chose to draw Thoth
because usually queens were educated in ancient Egypt. I also added some
hieroglyphics. At the right side of the page I have three different scenes that
all include hieroglyphics and the Lotus; the symbol of rebirth. Having the
pharaoh or other important people protected in afterlife it was really
important to ancient Egyptians because they believed in rebirth.
On the right side of the paper we
can see two scenes where they wrap the body of dead. In both first and second
scene I have included hieroglyphics and the god of the dead and embalming;
Anubis. The reason I chose to draw Anubis is because he makes the body of the
dead, Nefertiti, look lifelike. Underneath these scenes there is the mummy when
it is finished and decorated. Next to the mummy there are two canopic jars
where they used to put the organs of the dead.
I chose to draw the great royal
wife, description for Nefertiti, because often women were supposed to be weaker than men and not very often we
see women marked as important people like Cleopatra. My was to describe the
general mummification system but also show that she was an important princess.
So my artwork would have been found in a tomb wall because in tombs they
painted important moments of the dead person or events that he or she attended
to.