ap art egypt words

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