APAH Egyptian Vocab

Armana Style: a more relaxed style

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: 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, once buried, has the ability to roam the world

Mastaba: a low, flat-roofed Egyptian tomb with sides sloping down to the ground, the start of an Egyptian tomb, Arabic for bench

Necropolis: city of the dead

Papyrus: an aquatic plant whose fiber is used as a writing surface(paper)

Peristyle: an enclosed series of columns, a colonnade surrounding or enclosing a courtyard

Pylon: monumental gateway into an Egyptian temple

Register: Horizontal band on top of another to tell a story

Relief sculpture: sculpted and rises out of a flat background

Sarcophagus: Stone coffin

Stylized: schematic, non-realistic manner of representation

Sunken Relief: carving in which the outlines of the figures are