Chapter 3 - Egypt

Question 1

Ankh

Answer 1

Symbol of life

Question 2

Axial plan

Answer 2

Plan where building parts are organized along axis

Question 3

Canon of proportions

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Canopic jar

Answer 4

Containers for major organs

Question 5

Cartouche

Answer 5

Oval, formed by rope loop

Question 6

Colonnade

Answer 6

Row of columns supporting straight lintel or series of arches

Question 7

Demotic writing

Answer 7

Simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphics

Question 8

Engaged column

Answer 8

Column attached to wall

Question 9

Faience

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Glyph

Answer 10

Picto/hieroglyph

Question 11

Groundline

Answer 11

Space as horizontal register where top is most distant

Question 12

Hieratic writing

Answer 12

Simplified hieroglyphics

Question 13

Hieroglyph

Answer 13

Symbols “sacred” “to carve”

Question 14

Hypostyle hall

Answer 14

Vast hall of columns (outside temple )

Question 15

Mastaba

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Necropolis

Answer 16

“city of dead” (saqqara, Giza)

Question 17

Nemes headdress

Answer 17

Royal headdress

Question 18

Obelisk

Answer 18

Tapering, 4-sided stone

Question 19

Peristyle court

Answer 19

Courtyard surrounded by columns (semi public)

Question 20

Portico

Answer 20

Projecting roof/porch supported by columns, often marking entrance

Question 21

Pylon

Answer 21

Massive gateway formed by pairs of tapering walls of oblong shape

Question 22

Register

Answer 22

Use of groundlines to divide larges of space

Question 23

Rock-cut tomb

Answer 23

Tomb cut into rock usually on hill side

Question 24

Sarcophagus

Answer 24

Coffin

Question 25

Scarab beetle

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Serdab

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Sunken relief

Answer 27

Outline of figures are carved into surface of stone

Question 28

Palletes

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Memory image

Answer 29

Generic form that suggests specific object

Question 30

Pectoral

Answer 30

Chest ornament

Question 31

Wedjat

Answer 31

Eye of Horus