Definitions

Question 1

Amphora

Answer 1

Large two-handled open container for wine or oil, mass-produced in the Hellenistic period

Question 2

Anthropoid

Answer 2

Shaped in imitation of a human figure

Question 3

Archaic period

Answer 3

From ca 700BC to the Persian sack of Athens in 480 BC

Question 4

Archaising

Answer 4

Deliberately imitating the style of the Archaic period

Question 5

Bronze

Answer 5

A copper alloy with ca 10% tin

Question 6

Bucchero

Answer 6

Class of pottery made in Etruria, wheel-made and characteristically fired in a reduced atmosphere to give a black fabric that was burnished before firing to give a slightly glo finish

Question 7

Capital

Answer 7

Top part of column, immediately supporting the architrave

Question 8

Cella

Answer 8

Main shrine-room within temple, contains the cult statue.

Question 9

Classical

Answer 9

Period from the sack of Athens 480BC to the death of Alexander 323BC

Question 10

Classicising

Answer 10

Deliberate imitation of the style of the Classical period

Question 11

Corbelled vault

Answer 11

Vault formed from horizontal courses successively overlapping and therefore narrowing towards the top

Question 12

Abacus

Answer 12

Slab forming the uppermost part of a column capital