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| A pointed tool used for engraving or incising. |
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| An arrangement of megalithic stone in a circle, often surrounded by a ditch. |
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| To cut into a surface with a sharp instrument, especially to decorate metal or pottery. |
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| Lintel/Post and Lintel System |
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| Horizontal beam that spans an opening. A system of architecture utilizing vertical supports and horizontal beams. |
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| A surface used to mix colors. |
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| Of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history. |
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| Twisted Perspective/Composite View |
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| Also called composite view; the depiction of an object where it is shown in profile while another part of the same figure is shown frontally. |
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| Mesopotamian wedge-shaped writing |
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| In paintings and reliefs, a painted or carved baseline on which figures appear to stand. |
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| An artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance. |
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| Assyrian hybrid guardian figure (winged bull with a man's head) |
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| A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events. |
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| Monumental platform for a Mesopotamian temple. |
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| A pyramidal stone; an emblem of the Egyptian god Re. |
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| A rule made up of proportions to depict the human figure. |
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| In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force. |
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| An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft. |
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| Egyptian hybrid guardian figure (man + lion) |
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| The artistic style of the 600-480 BCE in Greece. |
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| In early Greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes. |
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| The uppermost member of a column. |
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| Female figure that functions as a supporting column. |
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| The room in an ancient temple where the cult statue was kept. |
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| A series or row of columns, usually spanned by lintels. |
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| Term for weight shift visible in a figure. |
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| A Greek architectural system with a more ornate capital form than the Doric or Ionic; it consists of a double row of acanthus leaves from which tendrils and flowers grow, wrapped around a bell-shaped echinus. |
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| An architectural system invented in ancient Greece for articulating the elevation of a classical building. It is the most simple of the orders. |
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| The depiction of an object that extends back in space at an angle. |
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| A painting technique where pigment is combined with fresh wet plaster. |
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| The term given to the art and culture of the roughly three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and the death of Queen Cleopatra in 30 BCE, when Egypt became a Roman province. |
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| An ancient Greek architectural system in which the capital of the column is decorated with volutes (scrolls). |
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| Archaic Greek statue of a young woman. |
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| Archaic Greek statue of a young man. |
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| Triangular space at the end of a building formed by its sloping roof. |
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| In later Greek pottery, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background, with painted linear details; the reverse of black-figure painting. |
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| Any sculpted or painted band. |
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| A structure or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities. |
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| A method of presenting an illusion of the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface by decreasing the intensity of color and the blurring of contours of objects that appear to be more distant from the viewer. |
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| A Roman architectural order which combines the esthetics of the Greek Ionic and Corinthian orders. The capital of the columns has both acanthus leaves and volutes (scrolls) on it. |
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| People that dominated central Italy before the Romans. |
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| Repurposed building stone for new construction, or decorative sculpture reused in new monuments. |
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| The Etruscan architectural order. Similar to the Greek Doric order but the column is made of wood, is unfluted, and has a base. |
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| True to natural appearance; super-realistic. |
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| Columns that are attached to the wall. |
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| Roman. A freestanding arch which commemorates an important event, such as a military victory or the opening of a new road. |
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