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Mesopotamia and Egypt Test, AP Art History

front 1

White Temple and its Ziggurat

Artist/Culture

back 1

Sumerian

front 2

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

Artist/Culture

back 2

Sumerian

front 3

Standard of Ur (from the Royal Tombs at Ur)

Artist/Culture

back 3

Sumerian

front 4

Code of Hammurabi

Artist/Culture

back 4

Babylonian

front 5

Lamassu (from the citadel of Sargon II)

Artist/Culture

back 5

(Neo-)Assyrian

front 6

Audience Hall (apadana) (of Darius and Xerxes)

Artist/Culture

back 6

Persian

front 7

animism

back 7

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

front 8

apadana

back 8

audience hall in Persian palace

front 9

apotropaic

back 9

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

front 10

bent-axis

back 10

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

front 11

buttress

back 11

a support of stone or brick built against a wall

front 12

citadel

back 12

fortress protecting a town

front 13

cuneiform

back 13

wedge-shaped system of writing created by Sumerians

front 14

facade

back 14

front of building

front 15

floor plan/ground plan

back 15

bird's eye map of building

front 16

hierarchy of scale/hierarchical perspective

back 16

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

front 17

hybrid

back 17

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

front 18

hypostyle hall

back 18

a hall with a roof supported by multiple columns

front 19

lamassu

back 19

Assyrian winged human-headed bull; guardians

front 20

register

back 20

a horizontal level of artwork that is delineated from other levels

front 21

votive offering

back 21

a gift of gratitude to a deity

front 22

ziggurat

back 22

pyramid-like building whose stories indent as building progresses upwards

front 23

back 23

White Temple and its Ziggurat

front 24

back 24

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

front 25

back 25

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

front 26

back 26

Code of Hammurabi

front 27

back 27

Lammasu from the citadel of Sargon II

front 28

back 28

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

front 29

White Temple and its Ziggurat

Medium

back 29

Mud brick

front 30

Statues of Votive Figures

Medium

back 30

Gypsum inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

front 31

Standard of Ur

Medium

back 31

Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

front 32

Code of Hammurabi

Medium

back 32

Basalt

front 33

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Medium

back 33

Alabaster

front 34

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Medium

back 34

Limestone

front 35

White Temple and its Ziggurat

Location

back 35

Uruk, Iraq

front 36

States of Votive Figures

Location

back 36

Tell Asmar, Iraq

front 37

Standard of Ur

Location

back 37

Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq

front 38

Code of Hammurabi

Location

back 38

Babylon (modern day Susa, Iran)

front 39

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Location

back 39

Dur-Sharrukin, Iraq

front 40

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

back 40

Persepolis, Iran

front 41

back 41

Palette of King Narmer

front 42

back 42

Seated Scribe

front 43

back 43

Great Pyramids (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu)

front 44

back 44

King Menkaure and Queen

front 45

back 45

Great Sphinx (goes with Khafre pyramid)

front 46

back 46

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

front 47

back 47

Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

front 48

back 48

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

front 49

back 49

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

front 50

back 50

Tutankhamun's tomb (innermost coffin)

front 51

back 51

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

front 52

amarna style

back 52

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

front 53

ankh

back 53

an Egyptian symbol of life

front 54

axial plan

back 54

a building with an elongated floor plan

front 55

canon of proportion

back 55

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

front 56

capital

back 56

top of a column

front 57

clerestory

back 57

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

front 58

colonnade

back 58

a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature

front 59

continuous narrative

back 59

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

front 60

corridor axis

back 60

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

front 61

enamel

back 61

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

front 62

historical narrative

back 62

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

front 63

in situ

back 63

on site and in its original place

front 64

ka

back 64

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

front 65

living rock

back 65

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

front 66

mastaba

back 66

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

front 67

narrative

back 67

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

front 68

necropolis

back 68

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

front 69

negative space

back 69

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

front 70

papyrus

back 70

paper-like material prepared in ancient Egypt from Nile plants

front 71

portico

back 71

a shallow columned porch

front 72

pylon

back 72

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

front 73

relief sculpture

back 73

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

front 74

sphinx

back 74

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

front 75

subtractive

back 75

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

front 76

sunken relief

back 76

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

front 77

Palette of King Narmer

Artist/Culture

back 77

Predynastic Egypt

front 78

Seated Scribe

Artist/Culture

back 78

Egyptian Old Kingdom

front 79

Great Pyramids

Artist/Culture

back 79

Egyptian Old Kingdom

front 80

King Menkaure and Queen

Artist and Culture

back 80

Egyptian Old Kingdom

front 81

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Artist and Culture

back 81

Egyptian New Kingdom

front 82

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut & Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist and Culture

back 82

Egyptian New Kingdom

front 83

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Artist and Culture

back 83

Egyptian New Kingdom (Amarna)

front 84

Tutankhamun’s tomb (innermost coffin)

Artist and Culture

back 84

Egyptian New Kingdom

front 85

Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer

Artist and Culture

back 85

Egyptian New Kingdom

front 86

Palette of King Narmer

Medium

back 86

Greywacke

front 87

Seated Scribe

Medium

back 87

painted limestone

front 88

Great Pyramids

Medium

back 88

cut limestone

front 89

King Menkaure and Queen

Medium

back 89

greywacke

front 90

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Medium

back 90

cut sandstone and mud brick

front 91

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut & kneeling statue of Hatshepsut

Medium

back 91

sandstone partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite

front 92

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Medium

back 92

limestone

front 93

Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin

Medium

back 93

gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

front 94

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

Medium

back 94

painted papyrus scroll

front 95

Seated Scribe

Location

back 95

Saqqara, Egypt

front 96

Great Pyramids and Sphinx

Location

back 96

Giza, Egypt

front 97

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Location

back 97

Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

front 98

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Location

back 98

Near Luxor, Egypt

front 99

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

Location

back 99

Book of the Dead