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| A monster attributed to Knossos who roamed the castle and had 24 virgins sacrificed to it every year. It had a bull’s head and a man’s body. |
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| a primitive style of masonry characterized by use of massive stones of irregular shape and size. |
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| rock fragments ejected by a volcanic explosion |
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| glazed ceramic ware, in particular decorated tin-glazed earthenware |
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| overlaid with gold and ivory |
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| an ancient Egyptian tomb, rectangular with sloping sides and a flat roof with an underground burial chamber |
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| a striped headcloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt |
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| shallow grooves running vertically along a surface |
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| a row of columns supporting a roof, entablature, or arcade |
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| high windows above eye level |
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| a fresco painting technique in which pigment is applied to dried plaster |
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| a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase, used as early forms of writing. |
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| a system of writing that used wedge-shaped characters from Mesopotamia |
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| horizontal bands in which a pictorial story is told |
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| a drink poured out as an offering to a deity |
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| the bigger a figure is in a work of art the more important the figure is |
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| a composition that is symmetrical on either side of a central figure |
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| to reduce or distort the shape of something to convey the illusion of three dimensional space as it appears to the human eye |
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| shaped like a bow; curved |
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| a vaulted hall or space with walls on three sides and the fourth left open to a courtyard, etc |
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| A flint tool with chisel point used for carving |
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| A raised picture incised upon or built upon a wall, usually no thicker than a couple of inches |
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| “bovine skull” a common motif in classical architectural ornament |
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| a thin board or slab on which mark making pigments are mixed |
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| a convention of representation is which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; aka twisted perspective |
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| formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch. |
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| a structure consisting of vertical beams supporting a horizontal beam |
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| a monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights |
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| a structure consisting of vertical beams supporting a horizontal beam |
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