Egyptian Artisans

The egyptian craftsmen or artisans were organized by a system based on hierarchies as most of them were employed by pharaohs the centralized government or the temple priests.

Egyptian artisans. Yet unlike the scribes they didn t get the respect they deserved. Some of the ancient egyptian artisans included sculptors painters weavers metalworkers jewelers scribes carpenters stone workers and potters. Financed by the ruling pharaoh they included stone masons plasterers draftsmen sculptors carvers carpenters painters and scribes and they lived in artists villages or workshops with their families. The workers depended entirely on their employees for food.

Weavers women could be weavers wove fabric and made clothing these ancient egyptians were highly skilled but had little social status despite their skills and hard work. Stone carvers were well known through their work in creating monuments tombs. In hard times when food. They made egypt what it is and what it is mostly known for in history.

These were the elite tomb artists and artisans who were commissioned to build and decorate the tombs of pharaohs and other officials. This video is unavailable. A very special band of workmen was paid to live inside a number of small purpose built villages in ancient egypt. They could be carpenters jewelers painters potters stone carvers weavers sculptors or metal workers.

Ancient egyptian village and temple valley of the artisans in luxor egypt duration. Artisans are middle class and are right above peasants and below scribes on the social pyramid. Although these unnamed egyptian artisans worked for rigorous hours under orders of a king or a noble they really possessed an unimaginable amount of talent and expertise. They usually worked for 10 days straight before taking time off.

Work for the artisans artisans typically worked side by side in large workshops. Artisans were a social class in egypt that were skilled craftsmen. These craftsmen were skilled and played an important role in the ancient community. Egypt s artisans were highly skilled laborers that created the most beautiful art work in the ancient world.

Even though artisans are highly skilled and create beautiful. Only the select few who became master craftsman were sometimes honored for their work. The word artisan means craftsman someone who is highly skilled in making things by hand. All of the art and furniture we see today was created by these hard workers of the ancient world.

Despite their skills these artisans had very little social status. They learned their craft and art from their former masters who ensured stylistic continuity of their legacy of beautiful art objects created for the world of the living or the dead and by upholding the principles of ma at of balance. Richard arkley 539 views. Ancient egypt is indebted to its artisans working day and night with utmost talent skill and hard work.

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