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Quality and creativityIn ancient Egypt

ByHany Eid Abdel Mageed

Quality ConceptQuality is external

and internal customer satisfaction. Quality is fitness for use.Quality is making

what the customer wants so as to delight the customer.It means near

100% accuracy in the first run. First time right and Quality firstattitude. Meeting standards.

No reworkNo complaints or

reprocessing requirement from the customer

Quality meanspursuing what is ideal. Not making any compromises.

There are two components of Quality .Product features

and freedom from deficiencies are the main determinants of customer satisfaction.

Product FeaturesPerformanceReliabilityDurabilityEase of useServiceabilityAestheticsAvailability of

options and expandabilityReputation



Freedom from deficiencies .Product free of defects and errors at delivery, during use and

during servicingSales, billing and other business processes free of errors.Freedom from deficiencies refers to quality of conformance.Increasing the quality of conformance results in lower costs,fewer complaints and increased customer satisfaction

How to discuss these concepts when studying ancient Egyptcivilization:

1. Mummification :

The ancient Egyptian were the ultimate practitioners of these complexprocedures and the mummies condition after 4000 years is apowerful example of there creativity Abu Simbel

Located more than 150 miles south of modern-day Aswan near thewest bank ofthe Nile River, Abu Simbel was the siteof two rock

temples built in Nubia byNineteenth Dynasty king Ramses II.

Another dramatic feature of this tem-ple is that twice each year, on approxi-mately April 22and October 22 (onemonth after the spring and autumnalequinox, respectively), a shaft of lightfrom the rising sun passes through thetemple entrance, down a corridor, pasteight floor-to-ceiling pillars, and into aniche at the far end of the sanctuary, a dis-tance of roughly 180feet back into the rock. There the sun illuminates four stat-ues normally in darkness:likenesses ofKing Ramses II and the gods Ptah, Amun-Re, and Re-Horakhty, the threemost im

Artists’ styles and techniques for creat-ing their works varied little over the ages.Statuarytypically showed figures at rest,with no attempt to suggest movementeven if the depictionwas of a person en-gaged in some ordinary daily activity. Incarvings and paintings, humanfigureswere typically shown in profile, facingright, although the eye and eyebrow onthat sidewere often shown in full view

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