13 terms

English	Photos
Apadana	an audience hall in a Persian palace
Capital	the top element of a column
Cuneiform	a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrowhead shape
Cylinder seal	a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image
Facade	the front of a building. Sometimes,more poetically,a speaker can refer to a "side facade" or a "rear facade"
Ground plan	the map of a floor of a building
Hierarchical scale	a system of representation that expresses a person' importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art
Lamassu	a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art
Negative Space	empty space around an object or a person, such as the cut out areas between a figure's legs or arms of a sculpture
Relief Sculpture	sculpture that projects from a flat background
Bas-relief	a very shallow relief sculpture
Stele (plural: stelai)	a stone slab used to mark a grave or a site
Ziggurat	a pyramid like building made of several stories that indent and have terraces at each level

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• "Ground plan" image
• "Lamassu" image
• "Negative Space" image
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• "Bas-relief" image
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