Prehistoric Art
+ Mesopotamia 400
+ Mesopotamia 400
Neolithic
The new stone age
Cuneiform
Sumer form of writing made by taking wet clay and pressing in marks with a stylus
Hieroglyphs
type of early written scrip in ancient egypt that uses conventionalized signs to represent concepts, sounds, or words.
ka
the spirit of the deceased
Faience
A mixture of pulverized stone dust and salt that gets shoved into a mold and fired in a kiln
ceramics
made of clay and hardened by heat
relief
A 3d image with a flat background
Pantheistic
showing or holding a belief in many or all gods, or the belief that God exists in, and is the same as, all things, animals, and people within the universe
ankh
Hieroglyph for "life breath"
Pharaoh
Used after Hatshepsut
post and lintel
Construction where horizontal piece is supported by two vertical posts/columns (ex. Stonehenge)
ziggurat
Platform for a temple
Osiris
Egyptian god of the afterlife and the under-world
mummy/mummification
the methods of embalming, or treating the dead body in Ancient Egypt
lost-wax casting process
Ancient Egypt process of making a wax cast and then pouring in bronze melting the wax
lamassu
Winged bull with a human head
Composite view/Composite figure
Face to the side, body from the front
Horus
Falcon-headed Egyptian god of kingship
register
Horizontal bands of decoration
EA- granulation
heat gold balls and then attach them together
Hierarchic scale
Scale translates power
Anubis
the jackal-headed god who watched over death and mum- mification
pyramid
square base with four triangular sides used as a tomb or tomb marker in ancient egypt
EA- filigree
delicate decoration, using gold wires to create openwork