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Great pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure
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Great Sphinx of Khafre
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Menkaure and Wife
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Mastaba of Ti relief
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| An independent, self-governing city |
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A system of construction in which two posts support a lintel
example: Stonehenge |
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| A technique used by ancient Egyptians to perserve human bodies so that they may serve as the eternal home of the immortal ka. |
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| A system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia, in which wedge-shaped caracters were produced by pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet, which was then baked or otherwise allowed to harden. |
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| example "venus of willendorf" |
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A hall with a roof supported by columns
example: Temple of Amen-Re |
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The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts.
Example: Temple of Amen-Re |
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| Arabic, "bench" An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft. |
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| Painting on lime plaster, either dry (dry fresco or fresco secco) or wet (true or buon fresco). In the latter method, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster. The painting technique, also employed in earlier Egyptian tombs, is fresco secco. |
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| Votive or Votive Offering |
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| A gift of gratitude to a deity usually made in fulfillment of a vow. |
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In Ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple.
Example: Ziggurat of Nanna |
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A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events.
Example: Akhenaton and Fefertiti |
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| Of, relating to, or being a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound. |
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| A government ruled by or subject to religious authority. |
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An artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance.
Examples: Standard of Ur and Stele of Naram-Sin |
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One of a series of superimposed bands or friezes n a pictorial narrative, or the particular levels on which motifs are placed
Example: Alabaster vase |
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To set (pieces of wood or ivory, for example) into a surface, usually at the same level, to form a design.
Example: Marble Head from Uruk |
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| In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. the degree of relief is designated hight, low or sunken. |
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| A simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls |
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| a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top |
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| the title of the ancient Egyptian kings |
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| statues and paintings had bellies and looked less idealistic |
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| The ancient region lying between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates |
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| A projection on the end of a piece of wood that is inserted into a corresponding hole (mortise) in another piece of wood to form a joint |
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| Greek for "Great Stone". A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures. |
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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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| There were also valley temples, which were often no more then monumental gateways connected to the king's mortuary chapel by a causeway |
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