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Ancient Near Eastern
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 arrow-head 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 |
| Hierarchy of scale | a system of representation that expresses a person's 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. A very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief (pronounced bah-relief) |
| 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 as the building gets taller; thus, these structures have terraces at each level |
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