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  • Austria
  • made of limestone
  • Paleolithic
  • 24000 BCE
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  • Lascaux Cave
  • France
  • Pigment on limestone
  • Paleolithic
  • 15000 BCE
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[Image result for catal huyuk]

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  • Turkey
  • Diagram of a House, Catal Hoyuk
  • Neolithic
  • 7400-6200 BE
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[Image result for stonehenge]

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  • Salisbury Plain,Europe
  • Sarsens
  • Neolithic
  • 2900-1500 BCE
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[Image result for stele of naram sin]

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  • Sippar, Iraq
  • limestone
  • Ancient Near East
  • 2254-2218 BCE
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[Image result for uruk carved vase]

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  • Uruk
  • alablaster
  • Ancient Near east
  • 3300-3000 BCE
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Cromlech

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a megalithic tomb consisting of a large flat stone laid on upright ones

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Post and lintel construction

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system with a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts

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Trilithon

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is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones (posts) supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top (lintel). It is commonly used in the context of megalithic monuments

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Cuneiform

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denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets

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Ziggurat

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a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

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Mastaba

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an ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, standing to a height of 17–20 feet (5–6 m), consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) in which to store offerings

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sarcophagus

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a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.

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Ka

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a spiritual entity, an aspect of the individual, believed to live within the body during life and to survive it after death

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Hypostyle

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having a roof supported by pillars, typically in several rows

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Pylon

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an upright structure that is used for support or for navigational guidance, in particular

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[Image result for palette of narmer]

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  • Hierakonpolis
  • green schist
  • Early Dynastic Period
  • 2950 BCE
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[Image result for seated ka statue of khafre]

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  • Giza
  • diorite
  • Old Kingdom
  • 2520-2494 BCE
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[Image result for seated scribe saqqara]

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  • Saqqara
  • painted limestone
  • Old Kingdom
  • 2450-2325 BCE
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[Image result for great temple of amun]

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  • Karnak
  • New Kingdom
  • 1579-1075 BCE
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[Image result for queen hatshepsut]

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  • Deir el-Bahri
  • red granite
  • New Kingdom
  • 1473-1458 BCE
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[Image result for queen hatshepsut tomb]

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  • Deir el-Bahri
  • New Kingdom
  • 1473-1458 BCE
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Obelisk

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a stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section and a pyramidal top, set up as a monument or landmark.

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Tholos

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is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones

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Dromos

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the passage to an ancient Egyptian or Mycenaean subterranean tomb

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Frieze

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a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

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Megaron

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the great hall of the Grecian palace complexes. It was a rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch, and a more or less central, open hearth vented though an oculus in the roof above it and surrounded by four columns

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Amphora

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a tall ancient Greek or Roman jar with two handles and a narrow neck

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Kouros

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an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked

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Kore

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an archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes.

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Doric

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relating to or denoting a classical order of architecture characterized by a sturdy fluted column and a thick square abacus resting on a rounded molding

[Image result for definition of doric]

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Ionic

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[Image result for definition of ionic]

  • normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform; The cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.
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Corinthian

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[Image result for definition of corinthian]

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Volute

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a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.

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Fluted

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from fancied resemblance to the inside of a flute split down the middle. Meaning “tall, slender wine glass”

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Acanthus Leaf

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an architectural ornament, as in the Corinthian capital, resembling the leaves of this plant

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Metope

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a square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze.

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Triglyph

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a tablet in a Doric frieze with three vertical grooves. Triglyphs alternate with metopes.

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Taotie

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is a motif commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasty

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[Image result for akhenaten and his family]

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  • Akhetaten
  • painted limestone
  • Amarna Period
  • 1353-1336 BCE
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[Image result for female figure and proportional design scheme, cyclades]

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  • marble
  • Cyclades
  • Cycladic
  • 2600-2400 BCE
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[Image result for palace complex at knossos]

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  • Knossos, Crete, New Palace
  • Minoan
  • 1700-1450 BCE
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[Image result for Bull’s head rhyton]

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Knossos, Crete

  • serpentine
  • Minoan
  • 1550-1450 BCE
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  • Mycenae
  • limestone
  • carved relieving triangle
  • Mycenaean
  • 1250 BCE
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-Dipylon Cemetery
-Athens
-ceramic
-Geometric period
750 BCE

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  • Doic
  • Ionic
  • Corinthian

-Archaic Period

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  • Anavysos
  • painted marble
  • Archaic Period
  • 530 BCE
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  • Death of Sarpedon
  • red-figure decoration on calyx krater
  • ceramic
  • Archaic Period
  • 515 BCE
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  • Greek
  • bronze
  • Early Classical Period
  • 460-450 BCE
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  • Acropolis
  • Athens
  • pentelic marble
  • High Classical Period
  • 447-432 BCE
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  • Procession
  • Ionic frieze within Doric peristyle
  • Parthenon
  • marble
  • High Classical Period
  • 447-432 BCE
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  • Doryphorus
  • Roman copy of bronze original
  • marble
  • High Classical Period
  • 450 BCE
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  • Apoxyomenos
  • Roman copy of bronze original
  • marble
  • 350-325 BCE
  • Late Classical Period
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  • Dying Gaul
  • Roman copy of lost bronze original
  • marble
  • Hellenistic Period
  • 220 BCE
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  • Sanctuary of the Great Gods
  • Samothrace
  • marble
  • Hellenistic Period
  • 180 BCE
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  • Mohenjo-Daro
  • steatite
  • Indus Valley Civilization
  • 2600-1900 BCE
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  • Sanchi
  • enlarged
  • Buddhism in India
  • 150-50 BCE
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-Karle
-Buddhism in India
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  • Tomb 1004
  • Shang Dynasty
  • Anyang
  • cast bronze
  • Ancient China
  • 1150 BCE
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  • Mawangdui
  • colors on silk
  • Ancient China
  • 160 BCE
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  • La Venta
  • Mesoamerica: Olmec
  • 900-400 BCE
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  • Nigeria
  • terra cotta
  • Africa: Nok
  • 500 BCE-200 CE
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