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Chapter Three
Ancient Egyptian Art
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Art History
12th Grade
09/18/2009

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Adobe
Definition
The clay used to make a kind of sun-dried mud brick of the same name; a building made of such brick.
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Amulet
Definition
An object worn to ward off evil or to aid the wearer.
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Ashlar Masonry
Definition
Carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone used in construction, fitted together without mortar.
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Atlantid
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A male figure that functions as a supporting column.
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Ben-Ben
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A pyramidal stone; a fetish of the Egyptian god Re.
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Block Statue
Definition
In ancient Egyptian sculpture, a cubic stone image with simplified body parts.
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Canon
Definition
A rule, for example, of proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beauty to be a matter of “correct” proportion and sought a canon of proportion, for the human figure and for buildings.
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Canopic Jar
Definition
In ancient Egypt, the container in which the organs of the deceased were placed for later burial with the mummy.
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Capital
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The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel.
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Caryatid
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A female figure that functions as a supporting column.
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Chamfer
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The surface formed by cutting off a corner of a board or post; a bevel.
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Clerestory
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The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts. In Roman basilicas and medieval churches, the windows that form the nave’s uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults.
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Colonnade
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A series or row of columns, usually spanned by lintels.
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Demotic
Definition
Late Egyptian writing.
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Engaged Column
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A half-round column attached to a wall.
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Flute/Fluting
Definition
Vertical channeling, roughly semicircular in cross-section and used principally on columns and pilasters.
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Fresco
Definition
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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Hypostyle Hall
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A hall with a roof supported by columns.
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Impost Block
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A stone with the shape of a truncated, inverted pyramid, placed between a capital and the arch that springs from it.
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Imhotep
Definition
First architect we know by name; built the step pyramid, etc.
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Ka
Definition
In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force.
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Mastaba
Definition
Arabic, “bench.” An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft.
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Necropolis
Definition
Greek, “city of the dead”; a large burial area or cemetery.
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Nemes
Definition
In ancient Egypt, the linen headdress worn by the pharaoh, with the uraeus cobra of kingship on the front.
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Palette
Definition
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; any surface so used. Also, the colors or kinds of colors characteristically used by an artist.
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Pier
Definition
A vertical, freestanding masonry support.
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Portico
Definition
A roofed colonnade; also an entrance porch.
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Pylon
Definition
The simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls, of an Egyptian temple.
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Sarcophagus
Definition
Latin, “consumer of flesh.” A coffin, usually of stone.
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Serdab
Definition
A small concealed chamber in an Egyptian mastaba for the statue of the deceased.
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Ushabti
Definition
In ancient Egypt, a figurine placed in a tomb to act as a servant to the deceased in the afterlife.
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