Title: Lion Human

Period/Culture: Paleolithic Prehistory 

Medium: Ivory

Title: Blackfeet Grizzly Bear Shaman

Artist: George Catlin

Period: American Art 1800s

Title: Woman From Willendorf

Medium: Limestone

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Woman from Ostrava Petrokovice

Medium: Hematite Stone

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Woman from Brassempouy

Medium: Ivory

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Bison at Le Tuc d'Audoubert

Medium: Cave floor

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Hall of Bulls at Lascaux Cave, France

Medium: Cave wall

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Lamp with Ibex Design

Medium: unknown

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Bison on Ceiling of Cave at Altamira, Spain

Medium: Limestone

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Spotted Horses and Human Hands at Pech-Merle cave, France

Medium: unknown

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Negative Imprint

paint around hand, creating a "white" hand 

and a black outline

Title: Bird Headed Man with Bison and Rhinoceros at Lascaux Cave, France

Medium: cave wall

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: People and Animals at Cogul Lirida Spain

Medium: cave wall 

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Megalith

a large piece of stone or stones that together

create a large piece of art

Title: Mammouth Bone House at Mesheirlich, Ukraine

Medium: Mammouth Bone

Period: Paleolithic Prehistory

Title: Village of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland

Medium: Stone

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Corbeling

two wall of stone bricks will be progressively 

stacked close and closer together as they ascend

to create a roof over the two walls with a small

opening to serve as a outlet for smoke

Title: Generic Dolmen

Medium: Stone

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Post and Lintel

A series of posts and a stone laying across

2 stones

cairn

a mound of rough stones built as a memorial or

landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline.

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Title: Passage Grave

Medium: Stone

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Title: Passage Grave in Newgrange, Ireland

Medium: Stone

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Title: Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, Wittshire, England

Medium: Stone

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

trilithons

two posts and a stone on top 

mortise and tenon joints

mortise is the whole that is carved out of the lintel 

tenon is the knob formed to fit into the mortise

The system provides stability

Title: Seated Man and Woman in Cernavoda, Romania

Medium: ceramic

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Title: Ruins of Anu Ziggurat and White Temple in Uruk, Sumer

Medium: Stone

Period: Sumerian, Ancient Near East

cone mosaics

wooden cones are colored on the flat end

and pushed into wet clay 

Title: Nanna Ziggurat in Ur

Medium: Clay

Period: Neo-Sumerian, Ancient Near East

Title: Votive Figures, Square Temple, Eshnunna 

Medium: gypson/limestone

Period: Sumerian, Ancient Near East

Title: Face of a Woman in Uruk 

Medium: Marble

Period: Sumerian, Ancient Near East

Title: Head of an Akkadian Ruler in Nineva 

Medium: Bronze

Period: Akkadian, Ancient Near East

Title: Stele of Naram-Sin

Medium: Limestone

Period: Akkadians, Ancient Near East

Title: Votive of Gudea

Medium: Diarite

Period: Neo-Sumerian, Ancient Near East

Title: Stele of Hammurabi

Medium: Diarite

Period: Babylonians, Ancient Near East

Shamash=god (seated) and Hammurabi

Title: Lion Gate in Hattusha

Medium: stone

Period: Hittite Ancient Near East

Title: Bull Rhyton

Medium: silver

Period: Hittite Ancient Near East

Title: Stag Rhyton

Medium: Silver

Period: Hittite Ancient Near East

Title: Reconstruction Drawing of Citadel and Palace Complex of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin

Medium: clay

Period: Assyrian, Ancient Near East

Title: Lammasu

Medium: Limestone

Period: Assyrians, Ancient Near East

Title: Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions

Medium: Stone

Period: Assyrian, Ancient Near East

Title: Enemies Crossing Euphrates to Escape Assyrian Archers

Medium: Stone

Period: Assyrian, Ancient Near East

Title: Assurbanipal Hunting Lions

Medium: Stone

Period: Assyrian, Ancient Near East

Title: Dying Lioness

Medium: Stone

Period: Assyrians, Ancient Near East

Title: Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden

Medium: Stone

Period: Assyrian, Ancient Near East

Title: Judith Slaying Holofernes 

Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi

Period: Italian 1600s

Title: Reconstruction of Babylon

Ruler: Nebuchadnezzar

Title: Ishtar Gate and Throne Room Wall

Medium: Glazed Brick

Period: Neo-Babylonians, Ancient Near East

mashhushshu

drgon creature dedicated to Marduk on the Babylonian Ishtar Gate

Ishtar 

Goddess of Love for the Babylonians

Title: Ariel View of Ceremonial Complex

at Persepolis, Iran

Builders: Darius I and Xerxes I

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

apadana

audience hall raised above the city level found in the Persian Ceremonial Complex

Title: Apadana of Darius and Xerxes

Medium: Stone

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

Title: Bull Capital

Medium: Stone

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

Title: Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute

Medium: Stone

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

Title: Immortal Persian Guards at Persepolis, Iran

Medium: Stone

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

Title: Vessel Handle of a Winged Ibex

Medium: Silver and Gold

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

Title: Vases with Ibex Motif 

Medium: Clay

Period: Persians, Ancient Near East

Title: Palette of Narmer

Medium: Clay

Period: Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic Egypt

registers

rows on a palette

seropard

a mix between a serpent and leopard

Title: Drawing of Mastaba

Period: Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic Egypt

Ka

your soul in the Egyptian belief system

serdah

the sealed room just inside the door of the Mastaba that houses an object that looks like the deceased so that the soul can inhabit it should the body decay or be stolen; it has two small holes that allow the soul to peer out and see if the family is bringing gifts

Title: Deer Hunt at Voltorta Gorge, Levant, Spain

Medium: cave wall

Period: Neolithic Prehistory

Who were the Amorites?

The Babylonians

Title: Pyramids of Giza 

Location: Giza, Egypt

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Big: Khufu 

Middle: Khafre

Little: Menkaure

Title: Great Sphinx

Location: Giza, Egypt

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Khafre

Medium: anorthosite gneiss

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Menkaure and His Queen

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Queen's Name?

Khamerenebty II

Title: Rahotep and Nofret

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Seated Scribe

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

found in mastba for Kay

Title: Ti Watching a Hippopatamus Hunt

Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Picking Figs

Location: Beni Hasan, Egypt

Period: Middle Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Head of Senusret III

Period: Middle Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Hippopotamus 

Period: Middle Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Rock-cut tombs

Location: Beni Hasan, Egypt

Period: Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egypt

Title: Block Sculpture of Senenmut and Neferure

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut

Location: Deir el-Bahri, Egypt

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Great Temple of Amun at Karnak

Location: Thebes, Egypt

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Hatshepsut Kneeling

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Hatshepsut Making an Offering to Horus

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Hatshepsut as a Sphinx

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Hatshepsut Seated

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Kingdom

Title: Pylon Temple of Luxor

Location: Thebes, Egypt

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Temple of Ramses II

Location: Abu Simbel, Egypt

Period: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt

Title: Akhenaten

Period: Amarna Period, New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt

Title: Akhenaten and His Family

Period: Amarna Period, Kew Kingdom, Ancient Egypt

Title: Nefertiti

Period: Amarna Period, New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt

Title: Tiye

Period: Amarna Period, New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt

Title: Fayum Portraits

Period: Late Egypt, Ancient Egypt

Title: Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy

Period: Late Egypt, Ancient Egypt

Title: Drawings from Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign

Artist: Dominique Denon

Period: Late 1800s to 1900s

Title: Double Flute Player

Period: Cycladic Aegean Art

Title: Figure of a Woman from Cyclades

Period: Cycladic Aegean Art

Title: Head with Remains of Painted Decoration

Period: Cycladic Aegean Art

Title: Seated Harp Player

Period: Cycladic Aegean Art

Title: Palace Complex 

Location: Knossos, Crete

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Bull Jumping Frescoe 

Location: Knossos, Crete

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Bull's Head Rhyton from Knossos

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Dolphin Fresco

Location: Knossos, Crete

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Flotilla Fresco

Location: Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Harvester Vase

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Kameres Ware Jug

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Landscape Frescoe

Location: Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Minoan Columns

Period: Minoan Aegean Art 

Title: Octopus Flask

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Woman with Snakes

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers

Location: Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades

Period: Minoan Aegean Art

Title: Mycenaean Citadel

Location: Mycenae, Greece

Period: Mycenaean Aegean Art

Title: Treasury of Atreus

Location: Mycenae, Greece

Period: Mycenaean Aegean Art 

Title: Dagger Blade With Lion Hunt

Period: Mycenaean Aegean Art

Title: Funerary Mask of Agememnon

Period: Mycenaean Aegean Art

Title: Golden Lions Head Rhyton

Period: Mycenaean Aegean Art

Title: Warrior Vase

Period: Mycenaean Aegean Art

Title: Vapheio Cups 

Period: Mycenaean or Minoan?

Title: Sleeping Muse

Period: Late 1800s-1900s

Artist: Constantin Brancusi

Title: Woman's Head

Period: Late 1800s - 1900s

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani

repousse

pouring gold over a mold and then pounded into a shape of a face

buon fresco

paint is mixed into wet plaster on a fresco, which allows the painting to last longer 

fresco secco

paint is applied to dry plaster, but it

does not last as long

niello

The mixing of lead with sulfur to rub onto a carving to created definition

tholos

circular beehive tomb done with corbeling

relieving triangle

a corbelled triangle found atop doorways in the Mycenaean civilization

Title: Centaur

Period: Geometric Ancient Greece

Title: Man And Centaur

Period: Geometric Ancient Greece 

Title: Funerary Amphora from Dipylon Cemetery 

Period: Geometric Ancient Greece

Title: Funerary Krater

Period: Geometric Ancient Greece

Title: Mantiklos Apollo

Period: Orientalizing Ancient Greece

Title: Corinthian Animal Style Olpe from Dipylon Cemetary

Period: Orientalizing Ancient Greece

Title: Woman of Auxerre

Period: Orientalizing Ancient Greece

Title: The Suicide of Ajax

Artist: Exekias

Period: Archaic Ancient Greece

Style: black figure

Title: Dionysos in a Boat

Artist: Exekias

Period: Archaic Ancient Greece

Style: black-figure

Title: Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game

Artist: Exekias

Period: Archaic Ancient Greece

Style: black figure

Title: Three Revelers

Artist: Euthymides

Period: Archaic Ancient Greece

Style: red-figure

Title: Herakles Wretling Antaios

Artist: Euphronios

Period: Archaic Ancient Greece

Style: red figure

Title: Death of Sarpedon

Artist: Euphronios

Period: Archaic Ancient Greece

Style: red figure

Title: Stepped Pyramid of Djoser

Period: Early Dynastic Ancient Egypt

Seth

Egyptian god of darkness/death

depicted as a hippo

reserve column

a column that supports no structural

weight, but is aesthetically enhancing

faience

glass paste over clay fired to make a glaze to cover pottery (ie. Egyptian Hippopotamus)

Pylon

entryway taht is trapezoidal shaped with flat top and slanted walls used in Egyptian temples

(ie Pylon of Luxor)

obelisk

tall four sided tower-like structure that

tapers at the top to form a pyramid like top. 

peristyle courtyard

columned porch contained in a building that

contains an inner garden found in ancient

Egyptian temples

hypostyle hall

hall of columns found in temples

drums of a column

individual sections of stone stacked on top of one another to make the shaft

clerestory

slits found at the top of the hypostyle hall 

that allow in light and air

ankh

symbol of everlasting life in Ancient Egypt

natron

salt blocks used to mummify a body; found

in the deptiction of Judgment before Osiris

who is sitting on such blocks

encaustic painting

hot wax is mixed with pigments and then

burned into a medium as an inlay

engaged column

a column that is partly attached to a wall

dromos

long pathway leading to Mycenae graves or tholos'

shaft graves

16 foot deep graves in Mycenaean citadel for royals

krater

vase with large top and small base used for mixing and serving in Mycenae

Title: Geometric Bronze Warrior

Period: Geometric Ancient Greece

kylix

a large wine glass used in Ancient Greece

contrapposto

a stance in which one leg is straight to

support weight and the other is bent

used by Ancient Greek painters