Unit 2A (Ancient Near East) Vocab

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The Fertile Cresent
An area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf.
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Ziggurat
A pyramid-like building made of several stories that indent as the building gets taller, thus, ziggurats have terraces at each level.
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Hierarchy of Scale
A system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art.
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Votive
offered in fulfillment of a vow or a pledge
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Register
a horizontal band, often on top of one another, that tells a narrative story
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Cuneiform
A system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrowhead shape.
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Relief Sculpture
Sculpture that projects from a flat background. A very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief.
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Lamassu
A colossal, winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art.
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Apandana
An audience hall in a Persian palace