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| MILLENNIUM, MILLENNIAL: a period of 1,000 years |
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| PANTHEON: all of the gods of a person or religion |
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| UTILITARIAN: designed to be useful and practical rather than decorative |
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| FRESCOES: a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries |
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| PIGMENT: the natural coloring matter of animal or plant tissue; a substance used for coloring or painting, esp. a dry powder |
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| COLOSSUS: n. a statue that is much bigger than life size; a person or thing of enormous importance, ability or size |
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| AMULET: n. an ornament or piece of jewelry thought to give protection against evil, danger or disease |
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| ANKH: an object or design resembling a cross but having a loop instead of the top arm, used in ancient Egypt as a sign of life |
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| LAPIZ LAZULI: an azure-blue, opaque, semi-precious stone,a mixture of various minerals |
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| MYRRH:a fragrant gum resin obtained from certain trees and used especially in the Middle East for perfumes, incense, and medicine |
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| SPHINX: Greek mythology - a winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and a lion's body |
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| PERSPECTIVE: the art of drawing solid objects on a two dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth and position in relation to each other when viewed from a certain point |
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| MUMMIFICATION: the act of preserving a body by embalming it and wrapping a cloth around it |
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| NATRON: a mineral salt found in dried lake beds consisting of hydrated sodium carbonate |
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| "KA":in ancient Egyptian religion, with the ba and the akh, a principal aspect of the soul of a human being or of a god. |
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| "BA":in ancient Egyptian religion, with the ka and the akh, a principal aspect of the soul; the ba appears in bird form, thus expressing the mobility of the soul after death. Originally written with the sign of the jabiru bird and thought to be an attribute of only the god-king, the ba was later represented by a man-headed hawk, often depicted hovering over the mummies of kings and commoners alike. |
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| "MAAT":noun Egyptian Religion. the goddess personifying law and righteousness. |
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