apadana
an audience hall in a Persian palace
cella
main room where the god is housed
cuneiform
system where the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrowhead shape
facade
usually the front of a building
ground plan
the map of a floor of a building
lamassu
a huge winged human-headed bull in assyrian art
register
a horizontal band often on top of another , tells a story
stele (plural stelae)
a stone slab used to mark a grave or site
votive
offered in fulfillment of a vow or pledge
ziggurat
a pyramid like building made of several stories that indent as the building gets taller
amarna style
art created during the reign of akhenaton more relaxed and elongated figures
clerestory
a roof that rises above the lower roofs and thus has window space beneath
engaged column
a column that is to freestanding but attached to a wall
ground line
a base line upon which figures stand
hieroglyphics
Egyptian writing using symbols or pictures as characters
hypostyle
a hall that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of columns
in situ
latin expression that means something is in its original location
ka
the soul or spiritual essence
masataba
arabic for "bench'- a low flat roofed egyptian tomb with sides sloping down to the ground
necropolis
city of the dead a large burial ground
papyrus
a tall aquatic plant whose fiber is used as a writing surface
pylon
a monumental gateway to an egyptian temple marked by two flat slopping walls between which is a smaller entrance
sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi)
a stone coffin