Ancient Egypt

Question 1

Stone coffin

Answer 1

Sarcophagus

Question 2

Established ways of representing things

Answer 2

Conventions

Question 3

Striped blue and gold linen cloth with cobra and vulture at center front. Commonly used as royal headgear

Answer 3

Nemes Headress

Question 4

Looped cross, symbolic of everlasting life

Answer 4

Ankh

Question 5

Beetle, associated with creation, resurrection, and rising sun

Answer 5

Scarab

Question 6

Words and ideas rendered in pictorial symbols

Answer 6

Hieroglyphs

Question 7

Front wall of a building

Answer 7

Façade

Question 8

Special jars used to store major organs of body before embalming process

Answer 8

Canopic Jars

Question 9

Flat-topped one story building with slanted walls; Erected above underground burial chamber

Answer 9

Mastaba

Question 10

Small sealed room housing Ka statue of deceased and chaple to receive mourning offerings

Answer 10

Serdab

Question 11

City of the dead

Answer 11

Necropolis

Question 12

Row of tall, narrow windows in upper walls

Answer 12

Clerestory

Question 13

Represents ideal system that was standard in political relief throughout Middle kingdom

Answer 13

Canon of Proportions

Question 14

Rectangular blocks dividing an area into sections

Answer 14

Grid

Question 15

Massive gateway formed by pair of tapering walls

Answer 15

Pylon

Question 16

Open colonnade courtyard; often with pool and garden

Answer 16

Peristyle court

Question 17

Vast hall filled with columns

Answer 17

Hypstle hall

Question 18

Mixture of lime, sand, and other materials; Easily molded

Answer 18

Stucco