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Egyptian Art
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amarna style | Art created during the reign of Akhenaton, which features a more relaxed figure style than in Old and Middle Kingdom art |
| Engaged column | a column that is not freestanding but attached to a wall |
| 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 |
| Hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing using symbols or pictures as characters |
| Hypostyle | a hall in an Egyptian temple that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of columns |
| In situ | a Latin expression that means that something is in its original location |
| Ka | the soul, or spiritual essence, of a human being that either ascends to heaven or can live in an Egyptian statue of itself |
| Mastaba | Arabic for "bench," a low, flat-roofed Egyptian tomb with sides sloping down to the ground |
| Necropolis | literally, a "city of the dead," a large burial area |
| Papyrus | a tall aquatic plant whose fiber is used as a writing surface in ancient Egypt |
| Pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt |
| Pylon | a monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple marked by two flat, sloping walls between which is a smaller entrance |
| Reserve column | a column that is cut away from rock but has no support function |
| Sarcophagus (plural, sarcophagi) | a stone coffin |
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