<P> Marble was extensively used in court art, although it all had to be imported, and use was made of various marble - saving techniques, such as making even heads up from a number of pieces, and using stucco for beards, the back of heads and hair . In contrast to the art of other Hellenistic kingdoms, Ptolemaic royal portraits are generalized and idealized, with little concern for achieving an individual portrait, though thanks to coins some portrait sculpture can be identified as one of the 15 King Ptolemys . Many later portraits have clearly had the face reworked to show a later king . One Egyptian trait was to give much greater prominence to the queens than other successor dynasties to Alexander, with the royal couple often shown as a pair . This predated the 2nd century, a series of queens did indeed exercise real power . </P> <P> In the 2nd century, Egyptian temple sculptures did begin to reuse court models in their faces, and sculptures of priest often used a Hellenistic style to achieve individually distinctive portrait heads . Many small statuettes were produced, with Alexander, as founder of the dynasty, a generalized "King Ptolemy", and a naked Aphrodite among the most common types . Pottery figurines included grotesques and fashionable ladies of the Tanagra figurine style . Erotic groups featured absurdly large phalluses . Some fittings for wooden interiors include very delicately patterned polychrome falcons in faience . </P> <P> Ancient Egyptian architects used sun - dried and kiln - baked bricks, fine sandstone, limestone and granite . Architects carefully planned all their work . The stones had to fit precisely together, since there was no mud or mortar . When creating the pyramids, ramps were used to allow workmen to move up as the height of the construction grew . When the top of the structure was completed, the artists decorated from the top down, removing ramp sand as they went down . Exterior walls of structures like the pyramids contained only a few small openings . Hieroglyphic and pictorial carvings in brilliant colors were abundantly used to decorate Egyptian structures, including many motifs, like the scarab, sacred beetle, the solar disk, and the vulture . They described the changes the Pharaoh would go through to become a god . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Ancient art history </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Middle East </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Ancient Egypt </Li> <Li> Mesopotamia </Li> <Li> Persia </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Asia </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> India </Li> <Li> China </Li> <Li> Japan </Li> <Li> Korea </Li> <Li> Cambodia </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> European prehistory </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Cycladic </Li> <Li> Nuragic </Li> <Li> Etruscan </Li> <Li> Celtic </Li> <Li> Scythia </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Classical art </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Ancient Greece </Li> <Li> Hellenistic </Li> <Li> Rome </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Explain some of the strict rules and style of egyptian art