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| On purpose; the artist had an intention of creating. |
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| to "re-present"; refers to the style, not the meaning, of the art. Figures in representational art are seen as their true meanings (ex: in cave paintings, an image of a bird represents a bird). |
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| A rule, for example, of proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beauty to be a matter of "correct" proportion and sought a canon of proportion, for the human figure and for buildings. |
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| A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally. Also called twisted perspective. |
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| The part of the entablature between the architrave and the cornice; also, any sculpted or painted band in a building (see register). |
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| In sculpture; figures projecting from a background of which they are a part. |
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| In sculpture; the background of the image is projected past the image (inverted image compared to regular relief) |
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| a hall with a roof that is supported by columns |
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| The wide entrance gateway of an Egyptian temple, characterized by its sloping walls. |
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| In ancient Egyptian sculpture, a cubic stone image with simplified body parts. |
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| In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force. |
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| In ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple. |
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| In ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple. |
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| looks like blocks being stacked on top of each other with each block smaller than the block below it. large usually made of stone. Ziggurat. |
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| Arabic, "bench." rectangular brick/stone with sloping sides erected over a tomb connected with outside by a shaft. Ancient Egypt. |
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| carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone used in construction, fitted together without mortar. |
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| cut and shaped to fit precisely with other stones. |
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closely spaced parallel grooves giving the appearance of bundled reeds
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| a tool used to cut and shape wood |
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| part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light |
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| The period of Egyptian history associated with Akhenaton dc1354 BC, king of ancient Egypt (c.13721354 BC), of the XVIII dynasty; son and successor of Amenhotep III . |
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| The Great Pyramids of Giza |
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Largest pyramid = Pyramid of Khufu
Middle pyramid = Pyramid of Khafre
smallest = Pyramid of Menkaure |
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| a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt) |
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| tombs made into the sides of hills and mountains/etc... What the egyptians used for burials of pharaohs after the pyramids were robbed so many times. |
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| Single stone block, monument or pillar. This word comes from the Greek monos(one) and lithos(stone) |
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| A striped headcloth worn by the pharaoh. |
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| A cobra emblem worn by the pharaoh as part of his headdress; a protective serpent/cobra that is worn on top of the Nemes. |
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| Akhenaton: early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC) |
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| the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt; Queen of New Kingdom Egypt from 1479 to 1458 BC. |
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| Egyptian mythology, or more specifically in the Heliopolitan tradition, was the mound that arose from the primordial waters, Nu, and on which the creator god Atum settled |
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| a jar used in the mummification process to store organs (Egyptian) |
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| a large cemetery: a tract of land used for burials |
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| Egyptian tomb structure that served as a chamber for the Ka statue of a deceased individual |
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| a vault formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses cantilevered inward to form an arch. |
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| Post and Lintel construction |
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| An ancient and, structurally, the simplest type of construction: vertical members (columns, posts, piers or walls) support horizontal members (beams, or lintels) as in ancient Egyptian or Greek temples. |
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| the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq |
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| a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates |
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| an upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building |
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| A common mineral of evaporates in inland salt playas; Calcium sulphate; used to make cements and plasters |
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a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving
a hard compact kind of calcite
a very light white
of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue" |
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| bricks painted and then fired to fuse the color with the baked clay |
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| An apadana (آپادانا) is a large hypostyle hall, the best known examples being the great audience hall and portico at Persepolis |
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| he ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty (ca. 550-330 BCE). |
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| winged, human headed bull; Akkadian; used to intimidate. |
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| a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle |
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| the arrangement of human figures that reflects social standing, the most important figure is represented as the tallest. |
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| The text consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts |
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| a range of colors in a work |
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