Bronze age architecture Flashcards
Name: Lion Gate
Date: 1300-1200 BCE
Place: Mycenae, Greece
Name: Lion Gate
Date: 1400 BCE Hittite culture
Place: Boghazkoy Turkey
Name: Guardian Figures at gate A at the Citadel of Sargon II
Date: 721-706 BCE
Place: Korsabad Iraq
Name: Ishtar Gate
Date: 575 BCE
Place: Babylon (present dat Babil Iraq
Bronze age building Technologies
Organic Materials: wood, other fibers, waddle and daub, construction
Mud Brick: Anu Ziggurat and White temple, uruk, 3300-3000 BCE
Name: step pyramid and temple complex of Djoser
Date: 2630-2575 BCE 3rd dynasty
Place: Saqqara, Egypt
Architect: Imhotep
Name: Valley Temple of Kahfre
Date: 2520-2494 BCE
Place: Giza, Old kingdom
Example of post and lintel or Trabeate architecture
Example of hypostyle hall
Name: Apadana (audience hall) of Darius and Xerxes
Date: 518-540 BCE
Place: Persepolis Iran, Achaemenid Persia
Name: Great temple at Amun
Date: 1292-1190 BCE 19th Dynasty
Place: Karnak Egypt
columns with papyriform and bud capitals, hypostyle hall
corbeled arch construction
Name: Tresury of Atreus
Date: 1300-1200
Place: Mycenae
Tholos- a behive shaped tomb
Name: Treasury of Atreus
Date: 1300-1200 BCE
Place: Mycenae
Dromos- an entryway to a building
elevation (cross section)- cutting it in half
plan- arial view
Name: Mastab of Ankh-Unas
Date: 5th dynasty, late 3rd millenium BCE
Place:
Name: Pyramid of Khufu
Date: 26th century BCE
Place: Giza Egypt
Name: views of mycenae citadel
Date: 1600-1200 BCE
Place: Mycenae
Ashlar- large square cut stone placed together with mortor
cyclopean- irregular blocks put together
Name: the Phaistos disk
Date: 1700 BCE
Place: Minoan
Name: Flotilla Fresco
Date: 1650 BCE
Place: Akrotiri Tera
Name: The Rosetta Stone
Date: 196 BCE
Place:
a decree of Pharoah Ptolemy V
- Hieroglyphic
- Demotic
- Ancient Greek
