Near East Vocab
A horizontal band, often on top of another that tells a narrative story.
What is a register?
ziggurat material
What is mudbricks?
An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia.
What is cuneiform?
A system of writing that uses picture symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
the Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer shows
What is a guide for the deceased’s passage into the afterlife?
A stone slab used to mark a grave or a site.
What is a stele?
This 5 legged sculpture was carved from Alabaster.
What is Lamassu?
A statue that was a surrogate figure that offered constant prayer to the gods.
What is a votive?
A stone coffin used to store a mummified body.
What is a sarcophagus?
Composition of the Seated Scribe
What is triangular?
the front of a building.
What is a facade?
Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna were brought to life with Gypsum, shell and this black version of
What is limestone?
the two figures in the Code of Hammurabi
What is a God and a King?
A hall in an Egyptian temple that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of columns.
What is a hypostyle hall?
material of the seated scribe
What is a painted limestone?
an audience hall in a Persian palace
What is oblique APADANA?
Used to create The Code of Hammurabi
What is basalt?
The two sides of the Standard of Ur
What is war and peace?
A sculpture consisting of carvings on a surface so that it stands out from the surrounding background.
What is a sunken relief?
The Great pyramids were built for these three kings.
Who are Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure?
a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.
What are VOLUTES?
Used for the red color that stands out against the lapis lazuli in the Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
What is red limestone?
It is an immense building with 100 forty feet tall columns which were dominating which created a parallel between them and the ruler who used it as a reception hall.
What is the Apadana of Darius and Xerxes ?
The Palette of Narmar shows
What is the unification of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms of Eygpt?
broke with traditions and beliefs of the past and rejected the god Amun and the name of the art style of art used to represent his rule.
Who is Akhenaten and what is the Amarna style?