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Starter Kit
Prehistoric Art
Art of the Ancient Near East
Art of Ancient Egypt
Artworks
100
An attempt to depict objects as they are in actual, visible, reality.
What is realism?
100
A stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure.
What is a megalith?
100
An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia.
What is cuneiform?
100
A system of writing that uses picture symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
A large Sumerian pyramid structure built for the moon god.
What is the Nanna Ziggurat?
200
The back story and culture of the art
What is context?
200
A method of construction with two posts supporting a horizontal beam, called a lintel.
What is post and lintel construction?
200
A statue that was a surrogate figure that offered constant prayer to the gods.
What is a votive?
200
A stone coffin used to store a mummified body.
What is a sarcophagus?
200
A Babylonian stele that was divided into three parts to inform the citizens of laws and punishments.
What is the Stele of Hammurabi?
300
The material from which a given object is made.
What is medium?
300
A prehistoric sculpture of a woman who was a symbol of fertility.
What is Woman of Willendorf?
300
A fortress placed in a high area.
What is a citadel?
300
A hall in an Egyptian temple that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of columns.
What is a hypostyle hall?
300
A Sumerian instrument buried with Queen Pubai to join her in her afterlife.
What is a Bull Lyre?
400
It suggests movement and action in an artwork.
What is oblique direction?
400
A circular megalith.
What is a cromlech?
400
An upright stone slab.
What is a stele?
400
A sculpture consisting of carvings on a surface so that it stands out from the surrounding background.
What is a sunken relief?
400
An Persian audience hall that had 72 40 feet tall columns.
What is the Apadana of Darius and Xerxes?
500
It has a visually satisfying effect of combining similar, related elements.
What is harmony?
500
An example of post and lintel construction using megaliths.
What is Stonehenge?
500
A low relief; it protrudes only slightly from the surface.
What is a bas relief?
500
A small concealed chamber in an Egyptian mastaba for the statue of the deceased.
What is a serdab?
500
A Neo-Babylonian entrance, with symbols of the goddess of fertility, storm god, and sun god.
What is the Ishtar Gate?