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In your text view the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara and to the Great Pyramids, Giza. In a short essay defend the assertion that the Great Pyramids are a distillation and crystallization of the basic design of stepped pyramid.

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View figure 3-13 of the seated scribe. Describe how the statue depicts both the physical appearance and the rank of the subject. Why would the scribe have enjoyed a special rank during his life?

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Your book says of the funerary temple of Hatshepsut (page 71), that it was "magnificently positioned against high cliffs. Study the relationship between the naturally occurring formations of the cliff and the constructed formation of the temple. How does this building complex relate to the setting in which it is located?

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Examine the statue of Khafra on page 59, fig. 3-9. How does the statue illustrate the point made by your book that a sculptor working on a piece in-the-round approached the task as though carving separate relief panels?

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How does the Sculptors at Work relief from Saqqara show that the rigid form of the human figure was a convention applied at will rather than just the way that Egyptian sculpture was done?

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