A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures
What is megalith?
100
A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase, the earliest known form of writing.
What is a pictograph?
100
A vertical level in a work that consists of several levels, each one categorized.
What are registers?
100
Human characteristics, perfect and better than reality
What is Idealized?
100
An ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, an underground burial chamber used to store offerings
What is a mastabas?
200
having the nature of, a scheme, schema, plan, diagram
What is schematic representation?
200
A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
200
Used in for the construction of Sumerian Ziggurats. Brick, made of a mixture of loam, mud, sand and water mixed with a binding material.
What is Muddbrick construction?
200
spiritual part of an individual human being or god, believed that after death it could reside in a statue of the person.
What is a Ka?
200
a raised road or track across low or wet ground.
What is a causeway?
300
An element of a pattern, image or part of one, or theme.
What are motifs?
300
To fulfill a vow made to God for deliverance, or a thing left to a Church in gratitude for some favor that was granted
What is a Votive Offering?
300
An early system of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus
What is Cuneiform?
300
A god connected with fertility; the story of his death at the hands of his brother Seth and his subsequent restoration to a new life as ruler of the afterlife
What is an Osiris?
300
bodies entombed in the pyramids of Egypt
What is mummification?
400
A triangular bone in the lower back formed from fused vertebrae and situated between the two hipbones of the pelvis.
What is a sacrum?
400
A large hypostyle hall
What is an Apadana?
400
Built to commemorate the reign of the pharaoh by whom they were built, as well as for use by the pharaoh's cult after death
What is a Mortuary temple?
400
A period of time when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen was shifted to Akhetaten
What is the Amana Period?
500
A structure consisting of two large vertical stones supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top
What is a trilithon?
500
An adornment on utensils or works of art in the form of a frontal view of an animal head or bust of a human
What are protomes?
500
An inner area of an ancient temple, especially one housing the hidden cult image in a Greek or Roman temple.
What is a Cella?
500
An egyptian architect and scholar, who was later deified, designed the step pyramid built at Saqqara for third-dynasty pharaoh Djoser.
What is an Imhotep?
500
An upright structure that is used for support or for navigational guidance, in particular.