HW: 1. WRITE YOUR NAME IN HIEROGLYPHICS

ON THE (CARTOUCHE) NAME TAG PROVIDED

2. PUT YOUR NAME IN ENGLISH AT THE BOTTOM

• Do Now: Make a flashcard for:

• Shenu:

• Also called a Cartouche; an oval ring placed

around the names of royalty and gods in

hieroglyphic inscriptions

SCRIBES OF EGYPT • Anyone, whatever their background,

could undertake this profession, if they had the right education and training.

• An Ancient Egyptian scribe had the opportunity rise to high ranks and even become a royal scribe bringing him wealth, land and power.

• An Ancient Egyptian scribe was exempt from the daily toil of physical labor and was viewed with respect by society.

JOBS OF SCRIBES

• Tax Collectors

• Law administrators

• Writing letters and legal documents such as marriage contracts

• Recording harvests, food supply and distribution

• Documenting rainfall and water levels of the Nile

• Controlling the food supply and distribution

• Conducting census of the population

• Overseeing the construction of buildings including planning, surveying and supervising

FASHION

• Men wore short kilts

• Women wore simple dresses &

robes

• Everyone wore sandals

EGYPTIAN ROBES

SIMPLE DRESS WITH SHAWL

HAIR

• Egyptians braided/plaited

their hair

• They also wore wigs

EGYPTIAN MAKE-UP

• Both men and women wore eye make up, rouge and perfumed oils that softened the skin and prevented burning in the sun and damage from the sandy winds.

• Kohl is a mixture of soot and galena. Kohl was stored in richly decorated containers called kohl pots.

• The malachite stone was crushed and then mixed as the green eye make up.

• Red ochre is a pigment made from clay & used as blush

• Henna is from the leaves of the henna shrub & was used as red hair dye & fingernail coloring

• Kohl pots

HIEROGLYPHICS

• “Words of the gods”

• This form of writing began c. 3000 BCE

• Egyptian hieroglyphs were a combination of

sound-signs, pictograms, and ideograms.

• There are over 700 symbols

• Only consonants - no vowels

• No punctuation

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• Hieroglyphs are written in rows or columns and can be read from left to right or from right to left.

• You can tell which direction to read because the human or animal figures always face towards the beginning of the line.

CARTOUCHE / SHENU

• The oval boarder for the

names of gods & royalty is

called a cartouche or a shenu

• “Cartouche” named for the

similarity of French bullet

cartridges

• “Shenu” named for the circular

shen symbol of the sun &

eternity

• Heh is the god of eternity

& holds the shen in both

talons.

• Horus & other vulture

gods also hold the shen.

• The sun symbol also

worked as protection for

the named person inside

it.