Chapter 3 - Egypt Flashcards
Ankh
Symbol of life
Axial plan
Plan where building parts are organized along axis
Canon of proportions
Set of proportional ratios in art based on measurements of human body
Canopic jar
Containers for major organs
Cartouche
Oval, formed by rope loop
Colonnade
Row of columns supporting straight lintel or series of arches
Demotic writing
Simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphics
Engaged column
Column attached to wall
Faience
Technique where glass paste is fired and produces shiny, opaque, smooth finish
Glyph
Picto/hieroglyph
Groundline
Space as horizontal register where top is most distant
Hieratic writing
Simplified hieroglyphics
Hieroglyph
Symbols “sacred” “to carve”
Hypostyle hall
Vast hall of columns (outside temple )
Mastaba
Flat topped, 1-story building with slanted walls erected above underground chamber
Necropolis
“city of dead” (saqqara, Giza)
Nemes headdress
Royal headdress
Obelisk
Tapering, 4-sided stone
Peristyle court
Courtyard surrounded by columns (semi public)
Portico
Projecting roof/porch supported by columns, often marking entrance
Pylon
Massive gateway formed by pairs of tapering walls of oblong shape
Register
Use of groundlines to divide larges of space
Rock-cut tomb
Tomb cut into rock usually on hill side
Sarcophagus
Coffin
Scarab beetle
Beetle associated with sun and Amun, creation, resurrection, and rising sun.
Serdab
Small, sealed room housing ka statue and shaped for mourning relatives and offering
Sunken relief
Outline of figures are carved into surface of stone
Palletes
Flat stones with circular depression on one side, used for grinding eye paint
Memory image
Generic form that suggests specific object
Pectoral
Chest ornament
Wedjat
Eye of Horus
