an ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft
What is a mastaba?
100
a series of rows of columns that are usually spanned by lintels
What is colonnades?
100
the first recorded name of an artist anywhere in the world who also served as the Pharaoh's official seal bearer and as the high priest for Ra
Who is Imhotep?
100
Eyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period, some consider him the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, therefore the first pharaoh of unified Egypt.
Who is King Narmer?
200
One of a number of bands or sections in which a design is divided
What is a register?
200
A place in which a priest would do ritual ceremonies for the survival of the ka in the afterlife.
What is a mortuary temple?
200
a small concealed chamber in an Egyptian Mastaba for the statue of the deceased
What is a serdab?
200
God of the Sun and Radiance that was the main god out of all others
Who is Ra?
200
Egyptian Queen of the 18th dynasty, who, after the death of her husband she became a regent for her nephew, later naming herself pharaoh and was often portrayed as male
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
A treatise incorporating this formula for the perfectly proportioned sculpture
What is canon of proportion?
300
In Ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple
What is a ziggurat?
300
a plan that incorporates 2 or more angular changes of direction
What is a Bent-Axis plan?
300
Is the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra that was worshipped by the Pharaoh Akhenaton
What is Aton?
300
King of the gods and god of the wind, he was an expansion to Ra
Who is Amun-Ra ?
400
A convention of representation in which part of figure is shown in profile while another part of the same figure is shown frontally
What is twisted perspective?
400
a large burial area for the dead
What is Necropolis?
400
mixture of loam, mud, sand and water mixed to produce architectures
What is mud brick construction?
400
a pharaoh that ruled in the Amarna Period of Egypt, whom abandoned the worship of most Egyptian gods in favor of Aton
Who is Akhenaton?
400
God of the afterlife, death, life, and resurrection
Amun-Ra :King of the gods and god of the wind he was an expansion to Ra
Who is Osiris?
500
a basic body plan in which the left and right sides of the organism can be divided into approximate mirror images of each other along the midline.
What is bilateral symmetry?
500
a hall with a roof supported by columns
What is a hypostyle hall??
500
the fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of other parts
What is a clerestory?
500
God of vengeance, sky, protection, and war that in the early dynastic Egyptian period was worshipped
Who is Horus?
500
a sky goddess who was the patron of love and joy, she was usually represented as a cow