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| An object worn to ward off evil (therefore it is apotropaic) or to aid the wearer. |
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| Carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone used in construction, fitted together without mortar. |
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| A male figure that fuctions as a supporting column (statue-column). In the female form it is called a caryatid. |
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| A pyramidal stone; a fetis or symbol of the Egyptian sun god Re. |
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| In ancient Egyptian sculpture, a cubic stone image with simplified body parts. |
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| An ancient Egyptian collection of writings containing about 200 spells that are intended to protect the mummy and the ka. |
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| A system of proportions for the human figure. |
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| In ancient Egypt, containers in which the gorans of the deceased were placed for later burial with the mummy. There were generally four. |
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| The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel. |
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| A vertical wieght bearing architectural member, circular in form; often consisting of three main pparts: a base, a shaft and a capital |
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| A series of row of columns, usually spanned by arched lintels. |
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| An exceptionally hard black stone found in Southern AFrica. |
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| A half round column attached to a wall. |
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| Vertical channeling, roughly emicircular in cross-section and used principally on columns and pilasters. |
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| Painting on lime plaster, either dry (fresco escco) or wet (true or buon fresco). IN true fresco the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid (wet) lime plaster; also a painting executed in either method. |
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| A system of writing using symbols or pictures. |
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| In Egyptial architecture, a hall with a roof supported by columns. |
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| In ancient Egypt the immortal human life force; the concept approximates the western idea of the soul. |
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| Arabic for "bench." An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber. |
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| A technique used by ancient Egyptians to preserve human bodies so that they may serve as the eternal home of the immortal ka. |
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| A large burial area or cemetery; literally, "city of the dead." |
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| The headdress worn by the Pharoah, usually with the uraeus (cobra) on the front. |
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| In ancient Egypt, a stone slab wit ha circular depression used for preparing make-up. |
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| A plant native to Egypt and adjacent lands used to make paper-like writing material. |
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| A porch with a roof supported by columns; and entrance porch. |
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| A simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls, often in front of an Egyptian temple. |
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| The representation of things according to their appearance in visible nature (without idealization). |
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| An Egyptian artifact, discovered in 1799, that gave scholars a key to decipering hieroglyphic writing. It has one text written in 3 scripts; Greek, Demotic (late Egyptian), and hieroglyphs. |
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| A coffin usually of stone; from the Latin for "consumer of flesh." |
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| A gem in the shape of a beetle. |
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| A small concealed chamber in or part of an Egyptian tomb used to house a statue of thedeceased. |
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| A mythical Egyptian beaest with the body of a lion and the head of a human. |
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| Literally "answerers." Small statuettes placed inside a tomb to perform or answqer for the deceased should they be rquired to perform any labor in the afterlife. |
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