Vocabulary Words Flashcards

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“Persian Gesture”

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Clasped hands

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Cyrus Cylinder

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In Babylonian Cunieform

Concerns of conquest of Babylon and returning Jews to their homeland.
539

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Archaemedic Dynasty

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Persia with Cyrus and Darius

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4
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Registers

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an event organizational system.
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5
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Hierarchical

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order of importance using size and direction

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Heraldic competition

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one man and 2 animals

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Androcephalus Bull

lama/lamassu

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a man faced bull

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8
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Apotropaic

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Warding off evil

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9
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Bent Axis Approach

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Ramps

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10
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Ziggurat

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a stepped tower with ramp like structures

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11
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Cunieform

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writing form with clay

3100-3000 BCE

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12
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Epic of Gilgamesh

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an epic story about duality with Gilgamesh and Enkidou

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13
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Alterity

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otherness, state of being different

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14
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Henge Monument

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circular ditch

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15
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Portable Art

art mobilier

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art made to be carried

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Multipe/ twisted/ mixed perspective

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Perspective from many different angles

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17
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Shamanism

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they are within the animal, a kind of spirital animal concept

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18
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Hunter Magic

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controlling animals through the painting

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19
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in situ

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artifact is still in the place it was found

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Narrative

21
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Iconography

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study of cultural elements like symbols in religion etc.

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Provenance

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the find spot

23
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Plan - Elevation - Section

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Plan- buildings drawing from above
Elevation- a view of the front or side of structure
section- slicing through building

24
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Subtractive vs Additive in sculpture

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Subtractive- carving out of block

Additive- adding clay etc. to form shapes

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Relief Sculpture | high and low
the more in the round it is, it's higher relief
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Style | period - regional - personal
period- style reguarding time and date Regional- geographics and societal influences personal- individual choices
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Value
lightness or darkness in art
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Pyramid texts - coffin texts - Book of the Dead
funerary texts
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Rosetta Stone
large stone with greek translation
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Pharos
light house of Alexandria
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Amarna Period
18th dynasty when Egypts capital was moved.
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Conceptual vs. Optical approach
concept- the idea of person, bull etc. | optical- as the eye views
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Canon of Proportions
human figure with the grid system
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Ben-ben (pyramidion)
small pyramid (cult object)
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Ka
part of the soul that lives in the body even after death, needs food, water, etc.
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False door
door to the spirit realm and where the ka can come and go
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Mastaba
a bench burial ground that is sloped
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Unification
prime event of history to connect upper and lower Egypt
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Lotus and Papyrus
``` symbols of upper Egypt (south) lotus lower Egypt (north) papyrus ```
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Cartouche
name plate
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Pharoah
King
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Hieroglyphs
ancient pictographical writing
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Clerestory
windows high above other sections of a building
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Pylon temple
two tapering towers
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Bent Axis Approach
slanted buildings edges