Quiz 1 Flashcards
MEGALITH
- Large stones or boulders used in prehistoric archiecture. Literal translaition “great stone”.
Ex. Stone Henge
CORBEL
- Masonry that projects slightly from a wall and serves as a support
POST and LINTEL
- Post: an upright structural member; column. Lintel: Any horizontal member that spans an opening.
What, Where, When ?
What: Stonehenge
Where: Salisbury, England
When: 2,000-1,4000 BC
What, When, Where, Who
White Temple
3000 BCE
Uruk, Mesopotamia (Irag)
Sumerians
What, when, where, who
Ur-Nammu Zigguart
2100 BCE
Ur, Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Sumerians
What, When, Where, Who ?
Palace of Sargon II
720 BCE
Khorsabad, Assyria (Iraq)
Assyrians
What, When, Where, Who
Ishtar Gate
612-539 BCE
Babylon
Neo-Babylonians
What, When, Where, Who
Palace of Persepolis
ca. 518 BCE
Persepolis, Persia (Iran)
Persians
ZIGGURAT
A stepped pyramid form used in ancient Mesopotamia as the platform for a religious building.
APADANA
An audience hall in in Persian palace architecture.
What, Where, Who, When?
ZOSER’S FUNERARY COMPLEX
Saqqara, Egypt
Imhotep
ca. 2630 BCE
What, Who, Where, When?
GIZA PYRAMIDS
KHUFU,KHAFRE,MENKAURE
ca. 25500-2460 BCE
GIZA,EGYPT
What, Where, Who, When?
MENTUHOTEP MORTUARY TEMPLE
Deil-el-Bahari, Egypt
Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
ca. 2061-2010 BCE
What, When, Where, Who?
QUEEN HATSHEPSUT’s TEMPLE
ca. 1473 - 1458 BCE
Deir-el-Bahri, Egypt
Senmut (architect)
What, When, Where, Who?
TEMPLE OF AMUN
ca. 1550 BCE
KARNAK, EGYPT
UNKNOWN
MASTABA
An Egyptian tomb with a flat top and sloping sides, built over a grave shaft
MORTUARY TEMPLE
A temple for offerings and worship of a deceased person, usually a deified king, as distinguished from a cult temple.
HYPOSTYLE HALL
A large space with a roof supported by rows of columns. Prevelent in Egyptian and Achaemenid architecture.
What, When, Where, Who?
PALACE COMPLEX AT KNOSSOS
ca. 1700-1380
KNOSSOS,CRETE
MINOANS
What, Where, Who, When?
TIRYNS
GREECE
ca. 1300 BCE
MYCENAENS
What, Where, Who, When?
LION GATE
MYCENAE, GREECE
MYCENEANS
ca. 1300 BCE
What piece of architecture is this?
TREASURY OF ATREUS
What, Where, When, Who?
TREASURY of ATREUS
MYCENAE, GREECE
ca. 1330 BCE
MYCENEANS
