AHIS 101 Exam One Terms

profile view

twisted perspective

abstraction

ground line

low/shallow relief

course

megalithic

big stone

post-and-lintel

neolithic revolution

henge

Register

Necropolis

mastaba

ancient egyptian tomb

serdab

ka

a persons life force

papyrus

symbol for lower Egypt

imhotep

khufu

khafre

menkaure

ben-ben

nemes headdress

linen head piece

uraeus

cobra on top of head of pharoahs

ashlar masonry

finely cut stones that are dressed and laid in horizontal courses

articulated walls

engaged columns

“opening of the mouth” ceremony

Egyptian funerary ritual designed to restore a deceased person’s senses and vital functions so they could survive in the afterlife

hatshepsut

senmut

axial plan

fresco secco

pylon

hypostle hall

clerestory

clerestory lighting

column

sunken relief/incised relief

aton

amarna period

new style of art was made in this time period; akhenaton was in charge

tell el-amarna

akhenaton

cuneiform

oldest writing system in the world; developed in Mesopotamia

ziggurat

base of Egyptian (Mesopotamia) temples

bent-axis approach

cella

stele

upright stone that could be used as a monument, grave marker, or for law

iconoclasm

kamares ware

light well

hole in roof of buildings to let light in

cyclopean masonry

large irregular blocks of stone

corbeled arch

corbeled vault

relieving triangle

linear b

writing used by Mycenaean Greek; oldest known form of Greek langauge

heroic nudity

archaic smile

smile characteristic of ancient Greek sculptures

votice offering

marble

material used commonly in ancient greek art as the material was readily available

peplos

kouros

standing nude figure of a young man in an archaic greek context

kore

woman in archaic greek context

apotropaic

an object, symbol, or gesture that is believed to protect against or ward off evil or bad luck

pediment problem

artistic challenge of fitting a unified sculptural narrative in an oddly shaped low triangular space in architecture of temples

contrapposto

pericles

polis (city-state)

iktinos

kallikrates

phidias

chryselephantine

propylaea

pinakotheke

for the theater: cavea, orchestra, skene

acanthus

tholos

agora

stoa