# Ancient Egyptian Art (古代エジプト美術) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.609 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/ancient-egyptian-art
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Ancient Egyptian Art, a style from Historical Styles, c. 3000–30 BCE.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: communicating authority, permanence and ritual through placement and repeated signs, or reconstructing Egyptian relief or painting without reducing it to hieroglyph-like ornament. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Head and legs in profile with frontal eye and shoulders
- Hierarchical scale indicating rank or sanctity
- Scenes divided into horizontal registers
- Outlined mineral color and strongly frontal statuary

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Divide the field into registers, enlarge the central figure, and combine profile head and legs with frontal eye and shoulders
- Type and lettering: When using inscriptions, verify the direction and wording of real hieroglyphs instead of making a decorative pseudo-script
- Material and surface: Use limestone or dry plaster beneath black contours and flat ochre, blue, green and red rather than modeled shadow
- Colour: #D8B56A carries the ground, #2D6E78 is the colour the style is remembered by, #2A211B holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: trust, luxury, calm

## What goes wrong

Pyramids, scarabs and gold do not make the style. Identify the period and purpose, and do not turn sacred writing or funerary culture into empty luxury decoration.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/ancient-egyptian-art/design.md