Principles of Ancient Egyptian art

• Head, pelvis, and legs are in profile.
• Upper torso and eye are in frontal view.
• Figures are flat, simplified, and stylized. [ All Egyptians represented look very similar as a result of this highly stylized approach.]
• Exhibited a consistent canon of proportions. A relationship established relating the scale of body parts to each other.

incised: a technique in which a design or inscription is cut into a hard surface with a sharp instrument.