Ch 4 KW

1.     Aegean a center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC

2.     Attribution the assignment of a work to the makers

3.     Citadel a fortress that commands and protects the city

4.     Corbelled Vaulting  is one in which the blocks are piled in horizontal courses and cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch

5.     Course in masonry construction a horizontal row of stone blocks

6.     Cyclopean Masonry a method of stone construction, named after a mythical, using massive, irregular blocks without mortar, characteristic of the Bronze Age fortifications of Tiryns and other Mycenaean sites.

7.     Faience low-fired opaque glasslike silicate

8.     Iliad and Odyssey Greek legends written by Homer

9.     Krater is a bowl for mixing wine and water

10.  Labyrinth is a place constructed so it is full of intricate passageways and blind alleys

11.  Megaron is the reception hall of the king

12.  Minoan art is lively, playful and spontaneous

13.  Monolith  is a column that is all one piece (not using drums)

14.  Mycenaean art is heavier, stronger and more “masculine” than the Minoan

15.  Niello a black metallic alloy

16.  Piers square or rectangular supports

17.  Relief sculpture In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part (variations are refer to as high, low or sunken).

18.  Relieving Triangle  in a corbeled arch, it is the empty space above the lintel that serves to lighten the weight which the lintel caries

19.  Repoussè formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face.  The metal sheet is hammered into a hollow mold of wood or some other pliable material and finished with graver.

20.  Schematic  is a graphic plan

21.  Stele upright stone slab or pillar used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events.

22.  Tholos circular structures or beehive tombs

23.  Treasury of Atreus  tomb built of concentric layers of blocks precisely cut in a conical form

24.  True/Buon Fresco Painting on wet lime plaster. The pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster.