| Term | Definition |
|---|
| temple | a place dedicated to the service or worship of a diety or dieties |
| fertile crescent | a region of the MIddle East arching across the norther part of the Syrian Desert and extending from the Nile Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. |
| stele | a carved stone slab used to mark gravevs or to commemorate historical events |
| lamassu | Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull |
| ziggurat | in ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple |
| cuneiform | a system of writing used in ancient Mesootamia, in which wedge-shaped characters were produced b pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet, which was then baked or otherwise hardened |
| composite figure | a figure combining the body parts of different animals or humans. A lamassu is a composite figure |
| architecture of mass | architecture that is dense and heavy |
| votive statue | an offering or gift of gratitude to a deity |
| register | one of a series of superimposed bands or friezes in a pictorial narrative, or the particular levels on which motifs are placed |
| stylized | to design in or cause to conform to a particular style not to realism, as of representation or treatment in art, |
| controlled space | ? |
| corbelling | courses of strone or brick in which each course projects beyond the one beneath it. |
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