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Chap 1-2 Flashcards

1
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Base

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Any support (bottom)

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Bitumen

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An asphalt used as cement or mortar

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Capital

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Sculptured block that tops (top)

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Citadel

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Fortress

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5
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Column

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Used for support and decoration

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6
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Cone mosaic

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Surface decorated by pressing pieces of mosaic onto clay or plaster

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Crenellation

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Notched walls

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Cuneiform

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Ancient writing in the form of symbols, used by the Sumerians

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9
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Cylinder seals

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Cylinder stone incised with pictures (stamp)

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Filigree

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Delicate, lacelike, ornamented work

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Glazed

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Film of colored glass over surface

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12
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Gold leaf

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Paper thin sheets of hammered gold

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13
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Glutting

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To fill

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14
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Hieratic scale

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Size associated with importance

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High relief

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Sculpture extruding a lot from background

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Incised

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Being inscribed

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17
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Inlays

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Set with materials on surface

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18
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Lost-wax casting

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Hollow mold, wax flows out, etc

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Low relief monumental

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Low relief on a monument

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20
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Palace complex

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Group of buildings where rulers governed and lived

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21
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Pictographs

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Simple pictures

22
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Registers

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Horizontal bands on picture space

23
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Shafts

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Vertical part of column

24
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Stele

A

Upright stone slab

25
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Stylized

A

To design in a style

26
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Stylus

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Pointed writing instrument

27
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Terminals

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Carvings at the end of something

28
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Torque

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Collar, necklace, etc.

29
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Votive figures

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Images dedicated to gods

30
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Ziggurat

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Huge stepped structures with temple/shrine on top

31
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Abstraction

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Reduction of shapes and appearance to basic but recognizable forms; not intended to be exact

32
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Cairn

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Artificial hill

33
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Capstone

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Table like rock

34
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Corbeling

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Layers of stone laid on top in shape of arch

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Dolmen

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Simplest megalithic tomb, post and lintel

36
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Henge

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Circle of stones/posts, often surrounded by ditch

37
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Incising

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Scratching figures onto a surface

38
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Low relief

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Sculpture that extends slightly from background

39
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Menhir

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An upright monument standing alone or with others

40
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Modeling

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Shaping damp clay

41
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Neolithic

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“new” stone age

42
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Paleolithic

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“old” stone age (lower, middle, upper)

43
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Passage grave

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Tomb entered by 1 or more passageways

44
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Post and lintel construction

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Post (vertical), lintel (horizontal)

45
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Relative dating

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Relies on chronological relationships among objects at excavation site

46
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Relief sculpture

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Sculpture extending from background

47
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Sculpture in the round

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Free standing sculpture surrounded by space, meant to be viewed from all sides

48
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Ware

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Group of ceramic types based on texture, surface, decorations, etc.

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Sarsen

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Grey sandstone

50
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Sarsen circle

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Ring of sandstones

51
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Lithography

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Stone carving

52
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Apadama

A

Huge meeting place; audience hall

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