84765323 | Akhenaton | the pharaoh who established the practice of monotheism (belief in one god) in Egypt | |
84765324 | Amulet | an object to ward off evil or to aid the wearer's luck | |
84765325 | Ashlar masonry | carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone, fitted together without mortar | |
84765326 | Atlantid | a male statue column | |
84765327 | Bilateral symmetry | the same design on each side of a vertical axis | |
84765328 | Block statues | cubic stone image of the deceased | |
84765329 | Canopic jars | containers in the organs of the deceased persons were placed | |
84765330 | Capitals | the cushions at the top of columns | |
84765331 | Causeway | a raised pathway leading to a valley | |
84765332 | Clerestory | the part of a building with windows which rises above the roof of the rest of the building | |
84765333 | Colonnade | a row of columns usually spanned by a lintel | |
84765334 | Egyptology | the study of that culture and religion | |
84765335 | Engaged | column attached to a wall | |
84765336 | Fluting | the vertical grooving on a column | |
84765337 | Fresco | painting on plaster, either wet or dry | |
84765338 | Hatshepsut | the woman who proclaimed herself pharaoh | |
84765339 | Hieroglyphics | Egyptian picture writing | |
84765340 | Hypostyle hall | one with a roof supported by columns | |
84765341 | Imhotep | the first artist in recorded history. He was the architect of King Djoser's pyramid | |
84765342 | Ka | an immortal life force, which would live on in the corpse when the body had died. The body must be preserved | |
84765343 | Mastaba | an ancient Egyptian rectangular structure, with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected to the outside with a shaft | |
84765344 | Mortuary temple | a temple for the preparation of the body and the worship of the dead | |
84765345 | Mummification | the process used by ancient Egyptians to preserve human bodies so they may serve as the eternal home of the immortal ka | |
84765346 | Necropolis | a city of the dead | |
84765347 | New Kingdom | the time when Egypt was at its height | |
84765348 | Old Kingdom | the time in which the Egyptian sculptors, painters, and architects codified the modes of representation and the methods of construction which would be followed for two thousand years | |
84765349 | Palette | a stone slab with a circular depression | |
84765350 | Papyrus | a plant native to Egypt used to make a paper like writing | |
84765351 | Personification | an abstract idea represented in bodily form | |
84765352 | Pharaoh | the ancient Egyptian god king | |
84765353 | Pier | a vertical free-standing masonry support | |
84765354 | Pilaster | a flat rectangular vertical member projecting from a wall of which it is a part | |
84765355 | Portico | a roofed colonnade, also an entrance porch | |
84765356 | Pylon | a massive gateway with sloping walls | |
84765357 | Re | the sun-god of Egypt | |
84765358 | Sarcophagi | coffins | |
84765359 | Sphinx | a mythical Egyptian beast with the body of a lion and the head of a human | |
84765360 | Sunken relief | incised in the into the surface of the stone |
Chapter 3- Egyptian Art
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