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38 Cards in this Set
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Ziggurat |
Rectangular, stepped tower topped with and altar. Usually paired with temple. |
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Stele |
Upright stone slab with inscriptions or imagery. |
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Votive Figure |
Small figures of men and women with large eyes, often used as religious offerings. |
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Sarcophagus |
The stone funerary box that a body was laid into, often decorated with images of the dead, inscriptions, or sculpture. |
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Lamassu |
A figure of bull with wings and a human head. Symbol of power meant to be intimidating. |
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Megaron |
A "great hall" type room. Axial in design, and generally contained a fire pit at the center vented by an open ceiling. |
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Sunken Relief |
Sculptural technique in which images are carved into a flat surface. |
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Rhyton |
A type of drinking vessel from the Aegean, usually in the form of an animal. |
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Serdab |
The room in a mastaba or pyramid that contains the Ka statue |
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Necropolis |
"City of the Dead." A group of mastabas housing the dead, meant to act as a sort of city for the spirits of the dead. |
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Labrys |
A Greek doubled-headed axe. |
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Buon Fresco |
Technique in which pigments are applied to wet plaster. |
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Akhenaten and Family. New Kingdom Egypt. Akhenaten. Limestone. |
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Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions. Assyria. Nimrud. Alabaster. |
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Leaping Bull. Minoan. Knossos. |
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Carved Vessel. Sumer. Uruk. Alabaster. |
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Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute. Persia. Persepolis. Limestone. |
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Figure of a Woman. Cyclades. Marble. |
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Flotilla Fresco. Minoan. Akrotiri. |
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Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut. New Kingdom Egypt. Deir-el-Bahri. |
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Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers. Minoan. Akrotiri. |
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Lamassu Guardian Figures. Assyria. Dur Sharrukin. |
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Hatshepsut Kneeling. New Kingdom Egypt. Deir-el-Bahri. Red Granite. |
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Harvester Rhyton. Minoan. Hagia Triada. Steatite. |
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Khafre. Old Kingdom Egypt. Giza. Diorite. |
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Lion Gate. Mycenae. Mycenae. |
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Nanna Ziggurat. Neo-Sumeria. Ur. |
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Palate of Narmer. Early Dynastic Egypt. Hierakonpolis. Green Schist. |
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Recon. Drawing of Citadel at Mycenae. Mycenae. |
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Recon. Drawing of Babylon and Ishtar Gate. Neo-Babylonia. Babylon. |
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Recon. Drawing of Palace Complex of Sargon. Assyria. Dur Sharrukin. |
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Recon. Drawing of Knossos Complex. Minoan. |
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Rock-cut Tombs. Middle Kingdom Egypt. Beni Hasan. |
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Stele of Hammurabi. Babylon. Sippar. Basalt. |
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Stepped Pyramid and Funerary Complex of Djoser. Early Dynastic Egypt. Saqquara. |
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Stele of Naram Sin. Akkad. Sippar. Limestone. |
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Votive Figures. Sumer. Limestone/alabaster. |
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Votive Figure of Gudea. Neo-Sumeria. Girsu. Diorite. |
