Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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Apadana | an audience hall in a Persian palace
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Capital | the top element of a column
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Cuneiform | a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow-head shape
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Cylinder Seal | a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image
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Facade | the front of a building. Sometimes, more poetically, a speaker can refer to a "side facade" or a "rear facade"
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Ground Plan | the map of a floor of a building
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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
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Lamassu | a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art
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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
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Relief sculpture | sculpture that projects from a flat background. A very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief (pronounced bah-relief)
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Stele (plural: stelai) | a stone slab used to mark a grave or a site
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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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