Mesopotamia and Egypt Test, AP Art History Flashcards

Sumerian

Sumerian

Sumerian

Babylonian

(Neo-)Assyrian

Persian

belief that gods/spirits are embedded in nature, and that they control nature

audience hall in Persian palace

believed to have the power to ward off danger, evil, or bad luck

a pathway through or up a building that is not straight or direct, but takes a bent or angled path instead

a support of stone or brick built against a wall

fortress protecting a town

wedge-shaped system of writing created by Sumerians

front of building

bird's eye map of building

a person's importance relates to his size relative to others in an artwork

two or more different things joined together (usually animal forms)

a hall with a roof supported by multiple columns

Assyrian winged human-headed bull; guardians

a horizontal level of artwork that is delineated from other levels

a gift of gratitude to a deity

pyramid-like building whose stories indent as building progresses upwards

White Temple and its Ziggurat

Statues of Votive Figures (from the Square Temple at Eshnunna)

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

Code of Hammurabi

Lammasu from the citadel of Sargon II

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Mud brick

Gypsum inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Basalt

Alabaster

Limestone

Uruk, Iraq

Tell Asmar, Iraq

Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq

Babylon (modern day Susa, Iran)

Dur-Sharrukin, Iraq

Persepolis, Iran

Palette of King Narmer

Seated Scribe

Great Pyramids (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu)

King Menkaure and Queen

Great Sphinx (goes with Khafre pyramid)

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Tutankhamun's tomb (innermost coffin)

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

an artistic style during the Amarna Period – Akhenaton’s rule – where traditional Egyptian conventions were abandoned for a more expressive and non-idealized style of art

an Egyptian symbol of life

a building with an elongated floor plan

a system of measurement by which artists can regulate size, scale, and
proportions

top of a column

a roof that rises above lower roofs and thus has window space beneath that lets in light

a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature

an image that illustrates multiple scenes in a single frame; therefore, some
figures repeat

a long hallway or path enclosed by large stone masonry, possibly symbolized the Nile

melted and fused glass powder mixed with pigment to create color; very smooth once cooled

a story or sequence of events that is (or purports to be) historically accurate

on site and in its original place

soul embedded in fleshly body, but upon death could live on; for the ___ to live securely, the dead body had to remain as intact as possible -> mummification developed

rock that is not detached and is still in its original setting

simple tomb with four sloping sides which covers an underground burial chamber

artwork that conveys a story, either as an ongoing story or as a sequence of events

greek for “city of the dead”; a complex of funerary buildings and tombs

empty space around an object or person, such as the cut-out areas between a figure’s legs or arms of a sculpture

paper-like material prepared in ancient Egypt from Nile plants

a shallow columned porch

the simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls, of an Egyptian temple

figures project from a background of which they are a part

degree designated by 1) high; 2) low (bas); or 3) sunken/incised

in the last, the artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the surface itself

hybrid animal, with body of lion and head of Pharaoh/god that exhibits protective qualities

a sculptural process including the removal of material of a block through cutting, chiseling, chipping, or scraping away

a type of relief carving where all lines are made into the surface, so that the design is set into the material

Predynastic Egypt

Egyptian Old Kingdom

Egyptian Old Kingdom

Egyptian Old Kingdom

Egyptian New Kingdom

Egyptian New Kingdom

Egyptian New Kingdom (Amarna)

Egyptian New Kingdom

Egyptian New Kingdom

Greywacke

painted limestone

cut limestone

greywacke

cut sandstone and mud brick

sandstone partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite

limestone

gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

painted papyrus scroll

Saqqara, Egypt

Giza, Egypt

Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

Near Luxor, Egypt

Book of the Dead