This optional module explores core concepts of ancient Egyptian religion and kingship by looking specifically at how they are reflected in pharaonic material culture, most notably within the visual arts (statuary, reliefs, minor arts) and architecture.Through a number of case studies relating to iconography, temple building and funerary archaeology we will investigate Egyptian attitudes towards kings, gods, and the dead.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
identify, analyse, and explain how Egyptian visual culture reflects core concepts of pharaonic religion and royal ideology
engage directly with the primary source material through applying a set of distinct skills (description, classification, contextualisation)
identify and analyse changes in visual manifestations of kingship and divinity over the millennia
synthesise the evidence for one or more abstract religious concepts being symbolised through specific visual/material forms
present analysis of aspects of the visual representation of Egyptian ideology/religion in an extended essay