Name of the work of art: The light bulb effigy

Complex at Denderah

at the Egyptian Temple

What media is used to create it: Chiseled stone

Artist (If known): unknown Egyptian

Date the work was created: the temple was occupied from 2250 to 343 BC
Where it was created: probably on site
Where it resides now: in a small chamber in the crypt of Denderah

Where I found the image: http://philipcoppens.com/denderah.html

Why I chose this: Conservative Egyptologists suggest that the snake was a
symbol of creation as a manifestation on consciousness, and the flower it is emanating
from a lotus. The users of this room would inhale the lotus flower and reach an altered
state, letting their consciousness manifest and define the real world by getting high.
More controversial researchers are willing to call a spade a spade, and state that the
stone relief depicts people holding light bulbs. The lotus like flowers at the bottom of the
bulbs would be the base, and the snake inside the bulb is a filament. The striped cord
coming from the back of the bulbs would be a power cord, plugging into a power source
at the extreme left of both bulbs. In any case, it was very dark inside this room, and
some light source would be needed to perform what rituals were done in this chamber,
without creating too much smoke damage that would be inevitable by using torches.
The original author of the cited web page also noted that the lotus flower usually opened
up at the earliest dawn in the same direction as sunrise.

Name of the work of art: A chariot found in King Tuts Tomb

What media is used to create it: Wood, reeds, some metal

Artist (If known): unknown Egyptian working for King Tut

Date the work was created: Sometime in King Tuts reign (1361
B.C. to 1352 B.C.)

Where it was created: Unknown

Where it resides now: Most likely in the Cairo Museum
Where I found the image:
http://tutankhamunsworld101.weebly.com/golden-chariot.html
Why I chose this: I wonder if the ruling elite allowed commoners to
have wheeled objects in Egyptian society? Or would they need a special
license (just like today!). I also wonder if wheeled technology was used in
any way to make the temple building projects easier? If that was the case,
then it would have been easier to complete these projects, which meant that
the commoners would have more time to do things like use wheeled objects
to pursue things like commerce and gain more wealth. This would be a
threat to ruling elite. No, they were only permitted to use their beasts of
burden to pursue their own agricultural activities and transport their offerings
to the gods at the temples! (being sarcastic)!!! The ancient Egyptian
pharaohs also understood the wheel as a way of projecting power through
military chariots, however, as shown in the pursuit of the Hebrews in the
vicinity of the Red Sea.

Name of the work of art: a statue purportedly depicting the historical Moses
and his adoptive mother, Nefure, an Egyptian princess.
What media is used to create it: stone

Artist (If known): unknown Egyptian

Date the work was created: Probably during Moses lifetime, 1525 to 1405
BC
Where it was created: Unknown
Where it resides now: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York

Where I found the image:

http://tutankhamunsworld101.weebly.com/golden-chariot.html
Why I chose this: after the ruling Pharaoh ordered all male infants of the
Hebrews to be drowned in the Nile (an effective way of reducing the military age
population of a rebellious peoplethe Hebrew ruler Herod would attempt to do
something similar in his effort later to kill the prophesied Jesus). Moses parents, instead
of handing him over to the Egyptians, decided to put Moses in a basket in the River and
let God take care of him. Moses was found by Nefure floating in a basket in the Nile and
raised as one of the Egypts royalty. He was destined to be in line for kingship, but
decided to turn it down and take up the Hebrew cause. It is also quite possible that
factions of the Egyptian royalty had problems with a non-Egyptian ruling over them,
creating a court intrigue problem. In any case, Moses successfully led the hebrews from

Egyptian control. The line of Pharaohs who oppressed the Hebrews fell from power
soon afterwards, and what followed was the Akhenaten monotheism movement of
Amenhotop, since he thought that the Hebrew movement demonstrated the
powerlessness of the Egyptian gods. It is said that Akhenaten borrowed 17 versus from
the Hebrew Pslam 104 in one of his praises to Akhenaten. Others say it may have been
the other way around. In any case, there are hard to ignore parallels between the Book
of the Deads Chapter 125 and the Ten Commandments of Moses. If Moses was raised
by Egyptian royalty, he probably would have been exposed to the Book of the Dead.
http://listverse.com/2013/06/30/ten-influences-on-the-bible/