Vocabulary Words

Question 1

“Persian Gesture”

Answer 1

Clasped hands

Question 2

Cyrus Cylinder

Answer 2

In Babylonian Cunieform

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

Question 3

Archaemedic Dynasty

Answer 3

Persia with Cyrus and Darius

Question 4

Registers

Answer 4

an event organizational system.
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Question 5

Hierarchical

Answer 5

order of importance using size and direction

Question 6

Heraldic competition

Answer 6

one man and 2 animals

Question 7

Androcephalus Bull

lama/lamassu

Answer 7

a man faced bull

Question 8

Apotropaic

Answer 8

Warding off evil

Question 9

Bent Axis Approach

Answer 9

Ramps

Question 10

Ziggurat

Answer 10

a stepped tower with ramp like structures

Question 11

Cunieform

Answer 11

writing form with clay

3100-3000 BCE

Question 12

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 12

an epic story about duality with Gilgamesh and Enkidou

Question 13

Alterity

Answer 13

otherness, state of being different

Question 14

Henge Monument

Answer 14

circular ditch

Question 15

Portable Art

art mobilier

Answer 15

art made to be carried

Question 16

Multipe/ twisted/ mixed perspective

Answer 16

Perspective from many different angles

Question 17

Shamanism

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Hunter Magic

Answer 18

controlling animals through the painting

Question 19

in situ

Answer 19

artifact is still in the place it was found

Question 20

Narrative

Answer 20

a story

Question 21

Iconography

Answer 21

study of cultural elements like symbols in religion etc.

Question 22

Provenance

Answer 22

the find spot

Question 23

Plan - Elevation - Section

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Subtractive vs Additive in sculpture

Answer 24

Subtractive- carving out of block

Additive- adding clay etc. to form shapes

Question 25

Relief Sculpture

high and low

Answer 25

the more in the round it is, it’s higher relief

Question 26

Style

period - regional - personal

Answer 26

period- style reguarding time and date
Regional- geographics and societal influences
personal- individual choices

Question 27

Value

Answer 27

lightness or darkness in art

Question 28

Pyramid texts - coffin texts - Book of the Dead

Answer 28

funerary texts

Question 29

Rosetta Stone

Answer 29

large stone with greek translation

Question 30

Pharos

Answer 30

light house of Alexandria

Question 31

Amarna Period

Answer 31

18th dynasty when Egypts capital was moved.

Question 32

Conceptual vs. Optical approach

Answer 32

concept- the idea of person, bull etc.

optical- as the eye views

Question 33

Canon of Proportions

Answer 33

human figure with the grid system

Question 34

Ben-ben (pyramidion)

Answer 34

small pyramid (cult object)

Question 35

Ka

Answer 35

part of the soul that lives in the body even after death, needs food, water, etc.

Question 36

False door

Answer 36

door to the spirit realm and where the ka can come and go

Question 37

Mastaba

Answer 37

a bench burial ground that is sloped

Question 38

Unification

Answer 38

prime event of history to connect upper and lower Egypt

Question 39

Lotus and Papyrus

Answer 39

symbols of
upper Egypt (south) lotus
lower Egypt (north) papyrus

Question 40

Cartouche

Answer 40

name plate

Question 41

Pharoah

Answer 41

King

Question 42

Hieroglyphs

Answer 42

ancient pictographical writing

Question 43

Clerestory

Answer 43

windows high above other sections of a building

Question 44

Pylon temple

Answer 44

two tapering towers

Question 45

Bent Axis Approach

Answer 45

slanted buildings edges