Art history test 1

Twisted Perspective

not an optical view but a descriptive view, when head is seen in profile and shoulders are frontal

Paleolithic

Old stone Age

Neolithic

New stone age

city state

a self governing entity

Cuneiform

System of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia, which wedge shaped characters were produced by stylus into clay

Register

A compartment that contain pictorial images

Stele

upright stone slab used for writing,memorials,historical

votive offering

offering to a god

Ziggurat

a platform to support temple shrine

Gilgamesh

Sumerian King

Hammurabi

Babylonian king and lawgiver, know for his code