a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
what is a citadel
What object has a daily use item commonly found in the Predynastic period- they were generally flat, minimally decorated stone objects used for grinding and mixing minerals for cosmetics.
What is palette
A form of art that demonstrates an accurate depiction of real life.
What is realism?
especially in ancient egypt to preserve a body by embalming and wrapping it in cloth
what is mummification
These figures are small statues made by ancient Egyptians as offerings to deities. These figures represented the individuals who dedicated them and were used in religious rituals.
What is Votive figures?
Some of the most magnificent man-made structures in history. Their massive scale reflects the unique role that the pharaoh, or king, played in ancient Egyptian society.
What is true Pyramid?
A variation of relief carving, found almost exclusively in ancient Egyptian sculpture, is sunken relief
What is Sunken Relief
enigmatic or incomprehensible
what is hieroglyphics
a cemetery, especially a large one belonging to an ancient city
what is necropolis
the belief in the existence of one God
what is monothesim
An architectural structure that uses flat platforms, or steps.
What is stepped pyramid?
The Egyptians believed this significant thing to be the mediator between the gods and the world of men.
What is Pharoah
Served a religious and cultural purpose, emphasizing the importance of the subject matter.
What is Stylized
Standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker.
Stele
Are large, often intricately designed structures that serve as places of worship and spiritual practice within Hinduism.
What is Temple Complexes?
a line of hereditary rulers of a country
what is a dynasty
horizontal bands or divisions within a composition that separate different stories or different scenes.
What is Registers?
a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription.
what is a cartouche
a covered urn used in ancient Egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body
what is a canopic jar
This is a pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia.
What is Ziggurat?
interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns
what is hypostyle hall
denoting or relating to the wedge shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets
what is cuneiform
a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
What is a scribe
A burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation.
What is rock-cut tomb
The belief in many gods and their worship.
What is Polytheism?