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| An architectural system of construction with two or more vertical elements (posts) supporting a horizontal element (lintel).[image] |
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| The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy. |
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| Wedge shaped script pressed into clay tablets with a stylus. |
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| In Egyptian architecture, a large interior gathering room of a temple complex that precedes the sanctuary. Marked by numerous rows of tall, closely spaced columns. |
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| The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water. |
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| The topmost zone of a wall with windows (especially of a church or temple), when it extends above any abutting aisles or secondary roofs. Provides direct light into the central interior space. |
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| A flat-topped, one-story building with slanted walls. Invented by the ancient Egyptians to mark underground tombs. |
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| A rectangular stone coffin, used by ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and others. Often decorated with relief sculpture in side panels. |
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| A stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs. Used as a grave marker or memorial. |
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| Early roofing technique in which each course of stone projects inward slightly over the previous layer (a corbel) until all sides meet. Results in a high, narrowly pointed arch or vault. A corbel table is a table supported underneath by corbels. |
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| A stepped pyramidal structure with a temple or shrine on top. |
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| A massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape. Erected by ancient Egyptians to mark the entrance to a temple complex. |
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| A tall stone shaft of four-sided rectangular shape, hewn from a single block, that tapers at the top and is completed by a pyramidion. Erected by the ancient Egyptians in ceremonial spaces (such as entrances to temple complexes) as commemorative monuments. |
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| Any large-scale, monumental building project that impresses by sheer size. Based on Greek myth of giants of legendary strength. Also: a prehistoric method of building , utilizing megalithic clocks of rough-hewn stone. |
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White crown of Egypt
Narmer conquered lower Egypt to create a unified Egypt. The red and white crowns, each representing Upper and Lower Egypt (I believe) were consolidated to become the double crown under Narmer, representing an unified Egypt. |
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Red Crown
Narmer conquered lower Egypt to create a unified Egypt. The red and white crowns, each representing Upper and Lower Egypt (I believe) were consolidated to become the double crown under Narmer, representing an unified Egypt. |
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| A set of ideal mathematical ratios in art, especially sculpture, originally applied by the Egyptians and later the ancient Greeks to measure the various parts of the human body in relation to each other. |
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a figure that emphasizes the birth-giving characteristics of women-- wide hips, large breasts, etc. THe Venus of Willendorf is the most prominent example that we're covering.
They may have been used to honor women's importance in giving birth and perpetuating society. |
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| a tholos is a temple with a circular plan. a tholos tomb is a bee-hived shaped tomb with a circular plan, in Mycenaean architecture. |
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was the blind Greek Poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad is often cited as the first epic poem and I believe Western literature often starts there.
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About the exploits of the Greek Hero Achilles and the fall of Troy at the hands of the Greeks, |
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| ___________ is about the travels of the Greek hero Odysseus as he makes his way back home after the Trojan War |
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| a temple with a circular plan |
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| a bee-hived shaped tomb with a circular plan, in Mycenaean architecture. |
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| a low-fired opaque glasslike silicate. |
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| In Egyptian architecture, a temple erected for the worship of a deceased pharaoh. The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut is an example. They're located in the Valley of the Kings, across the Nile from Thebes. |
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