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29 Cards in this Set
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Define "relieving triangle"
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In a corbeled arch, the opening above the lintel that serves to lighten the weight to be carried by the lintel itself
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Define "chimera / fantastic animals"
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animals depicted as behaving like humans
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Define "beehive dome with corbeled vault"
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pointed dome created by stacking stone blocks in horizontal courses, each sticking out slightly further than the one below
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Define "lapis lazuli"
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semi-precious, azure-blue stone imported from Afghanistan... used by and for people of wealth and importance
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Define "labryinth"
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English word that derives from the intricate plan & scores of rooms of the Knossos palace. Labrys means "double ax" in Greek, which was a symbol seen throughout the palace
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Define "hierarchical society"
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A society in which there is separation into groups of people based on rank or class allowing priviledges to those in a "higher" class
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Define "pharaohs"
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ancient Egyptian kings, considered living gods
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Define "Mesopotamia"
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Area between the rivers, Tigris and Euphrates
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Define "hierarchical space"
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A building which has limited access to people based on their importance or rank in society
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Define "mumification"
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technique for embalming in order to preserve the body
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Define "registers"
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bands in a pictoral narrative
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Define "necropolis"
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Greek for "city of the dead"
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Define "hypostyle hall"
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huge room with a roof supported by many columns
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Define "fresco"
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Painting on lime plasters either dry or wet
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Define "clerestory"
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raised central section in a hypostyle hall that allowed light to filter into the interior
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Define "ka"
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life force that the Egyptians believed was with a person from birth and could inhabit the corspe upon death and live on
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Define "papyrus"
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material used by the Eyptians for writing on... as in papyrus scrolls
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Define "palette"
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a stone slab with a circular depression
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Define "heraldic composition"
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a central figure with an animal on each side
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Define "capital"
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the uppermost part of a column
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Define "closed style"
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In sculpture, no open spaces, solid & attached... gives a sense of strength and power
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Define "continuous narrative"
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In a painting or sculpture, when a figure appears more than once in the same space at different stages in a story
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Define "canon"
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rules of proportion, strictly adhered to in Egyptian art
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Define "longitudinal plan with central axis"
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The horizontal, symmetrical arrangement of a building from a central point running the length of the building
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Define "relief sculpture"
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A sculpture in which the figures are projecting from the the surface of which they are a part
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Define "stele"
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A carved, stone slab erected to commemerate an event
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Define "votive offering"
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gift of gratitude offered to a god or goddess
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Define "cuneiform"
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wedge-shaped, pictograph signs used by the Sumerians for writing
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Define "sunken relief"
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deep outlines chiseled below the stone's surface (as in sunken relief columns)
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