Set: AP Art History Chapter 2 - 2008
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All 13 Terms
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temple | a place dedicated to the service or worship of a diety or dieties |
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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. |
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stele | a carved stone slab used to mark gravevs or to commemorate historical events |
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lamassu | Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull |
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ziggurat | in ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple |
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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 |
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composite figure | a figure combining the body parts of different animals or humans. A lamassu is a composite figure |
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architecture of mass | architecture that is dense and heavy |
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votive statue | an offering or gift of gratitude to a deity |
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register | one of a series of superimposed bands or friezes in a pictorial narrative, or the particular levels on which motifs are placed |
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stylized | to design in or cause to conform to a particular style not to realism, as of representation or treatment in art, |
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controlled space | ? |
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corbelling | courses of strone or brick in which each course projects beyond the one beneath it. |
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| Terms | 13 |
| Creator | Jenkins |
| Created | January 21, 2008 |
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Jenkins : Changed compostie figure → a figure combining the body parts of different animals or humans. A lamassu is a composite figure to composite figure → a figure combining the body parts of different animals or humans. A lamassu is a composite figure
Jenkins : Changed archictecture of mass → architecture that is dense and heavy to architecture of mass → architecture that is dense and heavy
Jenkins : Changed votive statuette → an offering or gift of gratitude to a deity to votive statue → an offering or gift of gratitude to a deity
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