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These anthropomorphic figures often guarded palace entrances
What is a lamassu
100
This work is ceremonial, narrative, and functional
What is Palette of Narmer
100
Sometimes portrayed as a male/pharoah with a false beard
Who is Hatshepsut
100
Akenaten and his family are carved using this technique
What is sunken relief
100
An audience hall
What is an apadana
200
Spellbound folks that "offer prayers"
What are Tel Asmar votive figures
200
He is naturalistic, not idealized
Who is Seated Scribe
200
He is holding a crook & flail, symbols of Osiris
Who is Tut
200
The name given to the new style & cultural change during Akenaten's rule
What is Amarna style
200
Symbol of life
What is an ankh
300
Tells a story of war & peace through registers & hierarchy of scale
What is Standard of Ur
300
Ideal, youthful, joined, permanent
What is Menkaure & his Queen
300
Anubis, Thoth, and Osiris are featured in this scene just prior to the afterlife.
What is the Last Judgment of Hu Nefer.
300
3 plant forms found frequently in Egyptian art
What are palm, papyrus, lotus
300
First appearance of a clerestory was at this structure
What is Temple of Amun-Re
400
Words of warning and a demonstration of divine right to rule
What is Hammurabi's stele (law code of Hammurabi)
400
Large numbers of columns holding up a roof
What is a hypostyle hall
400
The Palette of Narmer commemorates this event
What is the unification of upper and lower Egypt
400
Form of writing found on Hammurabi's stele
What is cuneiform
400
2 characteristics of figures in both ANE & Egypt
What are profile and frontal shoulders
500
3 of the cultures within the Ancient Near East
What are Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Akkadian
500
These 3 kings each had one of the great pyramids at Giza
Who are Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure
500
Terraced and in harmony with nature
What is the Temple of Hatshepsut
500
The Temple of Amun-Re had this plan
What is an axial plan
500
A sculpture which houses the spirit after death
What is a "ka" statue