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Chapter 3 - Egypt Flashcards

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Ankh

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Symbol of life

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Axial plan

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Plan where building parts are organized along axis

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Canon of proportions

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Set of proportional ratios in art based on measurements of human body

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Canopic jar

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Containers for major organs

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Cartouche

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Oval, formed by rope loop

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Colonnade

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Row of columns supporting straight lintel or series of arches

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Demotic writing

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Simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphics

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Engaged column

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Column attached to wall

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Faience

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Technique where glass paste is fired and produces shiny, opaque, smooth finish

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Glyph

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Picto/hieroglyph

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Groundline

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Space as horizontal register where top is most distant

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Hieratic writing

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Simplified hieroglyphics

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Hieroglyph

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Symbols “sacred” “to carve”

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Hypostyle hall

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Vast hall of columns (outside temple )

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Mastaba

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Flat topped, 1-story building with slanted walls erected above underground chamber

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Necropolis

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“city of dead” (saqqara, Giza)

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Nemes headdress

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Royal headdress

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Obelisk

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Tapering, 4-sided stone

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Peristyle court

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Courtyard surrounded by columns (semi public)

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Portico

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Projecting roof/porch supported by columns, often marking entrance

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Pylon

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Massive gateway formed by pairs of tapering walls of oblong shape

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Register

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Use of groundlines to divide larges of space

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Rock-cut tomb

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Tomb cut into rock usually on hill side

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Sarcophagus

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Coffin

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Scarab beetle

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Beetle associated with sun and Amun, creation, resurrection, and rising sun.

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Serdab

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Small, sealed room housing ka statue and shaped for mourning relatives and offering

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Sunken relief

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Outline of figures are carved into surface of stone

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Palletes

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Flat stones with circular depression on one side, used for grinding eye paint

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Memory image

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Generic form that suggests specific object

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Pectoral

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Chest ornament

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Wedjat

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Eye of Horus

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