1st Test Flashcards
Kohl in a tiny hole that is crushed up with water
The Narmer Palette
a projection jutting out from a wall to support a structure above it
Corbelling
what does Neolithic mean
New Rock
The belief that everything had a spirit
Animism
First Spears
ATLATL
What media was used to create cave paintings
Charcoal, Ocher, vegetation - Used fat as a binder
praying for the leaves to come back and the heat, didn’t know what seasons were
Sympathetic Magic
something far away is tiny and things up close are bigger
Forshortening
22,000 years old, no legs, has a woven hat, and arms resting on body, she is thicc, a fertility goddess, she was coated in red ocher, they had to have someone sacrificed to make her Women of Willendorf
Women of Willendorf
Hallmarks of the Neolithic revolution
- domestication of animals
- agriculuture - irrigation, understanding seasons, seed stock
- beauorcary
- monetary system
- invention of the alphabet
plaster, human skull
Spirit Trap
making slashes with a knife
Scoring
they would be dedicated to deceased family memebers and smashed
Terracotta Figures
as old as the book of Exodus
They created a golden cast, and they smelted the gold
The bigger the power
The bigger the head
larger is higher, smaller is lower, the important thing is big and the unimportant is small
Hierachy of scale
fast hands slow wheel, slow hands fast wheel
Pottery wheel
go with a smooth rock and rub it to heat it up to seal the clay, in rapid movements over and over again
Burnishment
mud piled up, was the center of the city, a rectangular stepped tower, they held competitions
Ziggurats
gift of gratitude
votive
a set of rules
canon
barefoot
hallowed ground
4 different kinds of relief
low relief (Bas Relief), high relief (Haute Relief), sunken relief, incised relief
an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading as a form of rock art
Petroglyphs
erected in the ancient world as a monument, a historical marker, and sometime its a warning or who they are
Stele of Narim - sin
the first exquisite piece from the lost wax method
The Akkadian ruler
First Soverign
The Akkadian ruler
at the top of the column, decorative, proprius
capital
it is a doorway, 2 posts with a lintel on top
post and lintel
took 1000 years to build
Stonehenge
like glue, you score the peice and then you put slip on like your buttering toast, it is a glaze, slip is clean dirt, a fine layer
slip
Gilgamesh
first epic poetry
we see the pictorial narrative for the first time to sate, a register, a ground line, it has low relief
Uruk Vase
What is the importance of the horn helmet
big bad, evil deity
first artist
Imhotep
