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CRAFTS, INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY Use the provided readings to add summary…
CRAFTS, INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY Use the provided readings to add summary details. Don't forget to add images!
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Technology
Temples
large decorative pylons (a large ornamental gateway used as a billboard for royal propaganda) designed for impressiveness and durability 
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Temples and their large pylons were constructed out of stone to ensure that the building would last 'forever'
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They used plumb bobs and square levels to ensure that corners of blocks were square and that surfaces were flat. These instruments were made of wood, twine, and lightweight stones.
Tombs
Stone Masons excavate the tombs by pounding large copper and bronze spikes which when pounded with wooden mallets would split and crack the rock.
Tomb of Rekhmire and tomb of Nebumun show a range of craftsmen working in the temple and royal workshop.
Bricklayers
Goldsmiths The following text accompanies a scribe who is weighing gold and silver rings "Providing for the needs of the goldsmiths of Amun and the supervisors of the artisans of Amun to accomplish all the work of the residence, in accordance with their daily tasks, their numbers are in millions and hundreds of millions, in the presence of the Mayor, the Vizier, the director of the Six Great Houses, Rekhmire".
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Plasterers would use gypsum to smooth down the rock and mix with a whitewash to bland out the colour.
Draughtsmen would use red ink to outline all of hieroglyphs and would cross out any mistakes in black ink
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Work techniques
Carpentry
Created, chairs, boxes, chests, coffins, boats and chariots.
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Pottery
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hand made pottery was made by forming a single piece of clay, shapping it with a paddle and anvil on a core or a hump, made with either a slab or coil
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Glass making
Asian origin (reign of Thutmose III), Containers for unguents, Jewellery and inlays
Ivory working
Figurines, Knife handles, Wands, Spoons, Gaming pieces
Scultping
Could work with granite, basalt, limestone, schist and diorite
Must have a wide knowledge of Egyptian gods and cults so they were able to accurately complete their sculpture
Faience Making
Created Figurines, Shabits and Jewellery
Goldsmiths
Was a precious metal, so had to be weighed before and after goldsmiths used them
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Gold being weighed - Rekhmire's tomb
Leather Workwer
Sandals, Rope, Satchels for carrying papyrus rolls, whips, reins, helmets, quivers and small round shields
Leather workers - Rekhmire's tomb
The craftsmen of Amun - Rekhmire's tomb
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