APAH Egyptian Vocab

Armana Style

A more relaxed style of art and architecture.

Axial Plan

A building with an elongated ground plan.

Clerestory

A roof that rises above lower roofs and has window space underneath.

Engaged Column

A column that is not free-standing, attached to a wall.

Hieroglyphics

Egyptian writing using symbols or pictures.

Hypostyle Hall

A hall that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of columns.

In Situ

Something in its original location.

Ka

The spiritual soul or essence of a person, which can roam the world after burial.

Mastaba

A low, flat-roofed Egyptian tomb with sides sloping down to the ground; the start of an Egyptian tomb.

Necropolis

A city of the dead.

Papyrus

An aquatic plant whose fiber is used as a writing surface, akin to paper.

Peristyle

An enclosed series of columns, a colonnade surrounding or enclosing a courtyard.

Pylon

A monumental gateway into an Egyptian temple.

Register

A horizontal band on top of another to tell a story.

Relief sculpture

Sculpted figures that rise out of a flat background.

Sarcophagus

A stone coffin.

Stylized

A schematic, non-realistic manner of representation.

Sunken Relief

A carving in which the outlines of the figures are sunk into the background.