Art History - Definitions
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- faience
- glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
- necropolis
- A city of the dead.
- henge
- a circle of monoliths; also called a cromlech
- sarcophagus
- A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
- hypostyle hall
- a hall with roof supported by columns
- post and lintel
- a system of construction in which two posts support a lintel (beam) going across them.
- mastaba
- an ancient Egyptian mudbrick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof
- cylinder seal
- Provided a frogery-proof method for sealing documents and proving authencity
- cuneiform
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
- Aten
- Represented as the sons disc with rays, Aten was the Lord of the Heaven and Earth. He became the most important god during the reign of Akhenaten.
- obelisk
- A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
- apotheosis
- the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
- fresco
- a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
- Imhotep
- Step Pyramid and Funerary Complex of King Djoser. 3rd Dynasty. ca. 2681-2662 BCE
- clerestory
- part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light
- Horus
- Egyptian falcon-headed solar god
- Adobe
- brick made of clay that was baked in the sun