Sacred artwork of ancient Egyptian religion: funerary texts, temple reliefs and deity imagery from the Old Kingdom through the Ptolemaic period. Belongs here: a work whose subject is an Egyptian deity, funerary rite or royal cult image, such as the Book of the Dead or a falcon image of Horus. Does not belong here: a Greco-Roman syncretic deity such as Isis-Fortuna that developed after Egypt fell under Hellenistic and Roman rule, grouped under Greco-Roman Art, since the syncretism itself is the subject there rather than pharaonic era Egyptian cult.
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1. Wikipedia: Art of ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt.
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