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| Greek, “high city.” In ancient Greece, usually the site of the city’s most important temple(s). |
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| A curved structural member that spans an opening and is generally composed of wedge-shaped blocks (voussoirs) that transmit the downward pressure laterally.See also thrust. |
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| The uppermost story of a building. |
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| Assignment of a work to a maker or makers. |
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| The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel. In classical architecture, the form of the capital varies with the order. |
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| A projecting wall member used as a support for some element in the superstructure. Also, courses of stone or brick in which each course projects beyond the one beneath it. Two such walls, meeting at the topmost course, create a corbeled arch or corbeled vault. |
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| A vault formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch. |
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| In masonry construction, a horizontal row of stone blocks. |
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| The pre-Greek art of the Cycladic Islands. |
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| A method of stone construction, named after the mythical one-eyed giant Cyclops, using massive, irregular blocks without mortar, characteristic of the Bronze Age fortifications of Tiryns and other Mycenaean sites. |
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| A hemispheric vault; theoretically, an arch rotated on its vertical axis. |
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| The passage leading to a tholos tomb. |
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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. Also, a painting executed in either method. |
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| The pre-Greek art of the Greek mainland (Hellas). |
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| Greek, the “writing of images.” The term refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork and to the study of content in art. It also includes the study of the symbolic, often religious, meaning of objects, persons, or events depicted in works of art. |
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| An ancient Greek wide-mouthed bowl for mixing wine and water |
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| The large reception hall in a Mycenaean palace, fronted by an open, two-columned porch. |
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| The pre-Greek art of Crete, named after the legendary King Minos of Knossos. |
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| The late phase of Helladic art, named after the site of Mycenae. |
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| A roofed colonnade; also an entrance porch |
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| In Mycenaean architecture, the triangular opening above the lintel that serves to lighten the weight to be carried by the lintel itself. |
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| Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face. The metal is hammered into a hollow mold of wood or some other pliable material and finished with a graver. See also relief. |
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| Freestanding figures, carved or modeled in three dimensions |
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| Hard-baked clay, used for sculpture and as a building material. It may be glazed or painted. |
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| A temple with a circular plan. |
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| In Mycenean architecture, a beehive-shaped tomb with a circular plan. |
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| In ancient Greece, a small building set up for the safe storage of votive offerings. |
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