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| The tall, cylindrical part of a column between the capital and the base. |
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| A system of writing using symbols or pictures used by the ancient Egyptians |
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| An ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,Demotic script and Ancient Greek. |
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| In Ancient Egypt, a slate slab used for preparing makeup..A thin board with a thumb hole at one end on which an artist lays and mixes colors. |
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| Arabic- "bench". An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb. |
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| The container in which the organs of the deceased were placed for later burial with the mummy. |
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| An ancient Egyptian funerary text. |
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| An object worn to ward off evil or to aid the wearer. |
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| Figurines placed in Egyptian tombs to perform labors for the deceased. |
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| City of the dead. A large burial or cemetery. |
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| A vertical, weight-carrying architectural member |
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| In masonry, a horizontal row of stone blocks. |
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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 half-rounded column attached to a wall. |
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| Stone blocks shaped to the exact dimension required. |
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| Carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone used in construction, fitted together without mortar. |
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| Are temples constructed adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, royal tombs in the Ancient Egypt |
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| Temple built as part of the pyramid complex, on the lower end. Site of worship, supposed to be the starting point of the funeral ceremonies. |
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| A raised road or track across low or wet ground |
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| A mythical Egyptian beast with the body of a lion and the head of a human. |
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| A composition or plan in which the parts are the same on either side of an axis. |
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| A rule, for example, or proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beauty to be a matter of correct proportions. |
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| Vertical channeling, roughly semicircular in cross-section and used on columns and pilasters. |
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| A series or row of columns. |
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| Usually a weight-caring member, such as a pier or column. Sometimes and isolated, freestanding structure used for commemorative purposes. |
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| Beveled/flattened on the edges |
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| Usually, the front of a building, also the other side when they are emphasized architecturally |
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| Male figures used as support columns |
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| Female figures used as support columns |
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| A simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls. |
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| A hall with a roof supported by columns. |
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| The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts. |
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| The designs are cut into the surface, so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the surface itself. |
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| The rubbing or grinding together of stone to create a smooth finish. |
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| In ancient Egyptian sculptures, a cubic stone image with simplified body parts. |
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| A roll of parchment or paper for writing or painting on. |
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| A knee-length skirt of pleated tartan cloth, traditionally worn by men as part of Scottish |
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| A monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, esp. one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt. |
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| A representation of a certain beetle (a scarabaeid beetle), which the ancient Egyptians considered sacred. It was usually a ceramic or stone sculpture or a cut gem. |
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| The linen head-dress worn by the pharaoh, with the uracus cobra of kingship on the front. |
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| The immortal human life force. |
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| A small concealed chamber in an Egyptian mastaba for the statue of the deceased. |
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| An the official script for the palaces and cults, and hieroglyphs were mainly used on seals. |
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| is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek. |
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| denoting a Bronze Age civilization that flourished in the Cyclades. |
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| An Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece |
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| A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze |
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| King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every year he made King Aegeus pick seven men and seven women to go to Daedalus' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by The Minotaur. |
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| A Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC |
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| epic poem written by Homer. It tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. |
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| "Consumer of flesh" A coffin, usually of stone. |
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| Sculpture that reaches out into the surrounding space. |
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| Fashioned of gold and ivory. |
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| A method of stone construction, named after the mythical one-eyed giant cyclops, using massive irregular blocks without mortar. |
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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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| Courses of stone or brick in which the course projects beyond the one beneath it. |
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| The large reception hall in a Mycenaean palace, fronted by an open two-columned porch. |
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| A temple with a circular plan. |
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| The passage leading to a Tholos tomb. |
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| A design, pattern, or piece of material inlaid in something |
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| A fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city. |
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