Chapter 2

Question 1

A stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions and reliefs

Answer 1

Stele

Question 2

The use of differences in size to indicate relative importance

Answer 2

Hierarchic scale

Question 3

An early form of writing with wedge-shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a stylus

Answer 3

Cuneiform

Question 4

An instrument with a pointed end and a triangular end

Answer 4

Stylus

Question 5

Huge stepped structures with a temple or shrine on top

Answer 5

Ziggurats

Question 6

Horizontal bands

Answer 6

Registers

Question 7

Images created as devotional offering to a diety

Answer 7

Votive figures

Question 8

Traditional ways of representing forms

Answer 8

Conventions

Question 9

A small cylindrical stone decorated with patterns

Answer 9

Cylinder seals

Question 10

What was used as an identifying signature?

Answer 10

Cylinder seals

Question 11

Method of casting metal where a mold is made of covering a wax figure with clay and then fired

Answer 11

Lost-wax casting method

Question 12

Grand entrance, often decorated

Answer 12

Portal

Question 13

Sculpted relief that projects only slightly

Answer 13

Low relief

Question 14

Group of buildings where the ruler governed and resided

Answer 14

Palace Complex

Question 15

Stone figures on the sides of stone gates

Answer 15

Lamassus

Question 16

Notched walls for military defense

Answer 16

Crenellateh

Question 17

Sheets of hammered gold

Answer 17

Gold leaf