Unit 1, Mediterranean 1- Key Terms

3. in ancient Mesopotamia architecture, a ziggurat is a monumental platform for a temple.
9. a great audience hall in ancient Persian palaces.
10. in ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force.
11. a carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events.
12. meaning "wedge-shaped" in Latin, it is a system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia. This writing system used wedge-shaped characters produced by pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet, which was then baked or otherwise allowed to harden.
13. formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face. The metal is hammered into a hollow mold of wood or some other pliable material and finished with a graver.
14. a rule; for example, for Egyptian artists, these were guidelines for them to follow.
16. in ancient Egypt, the container in which the organs of the deceased were placed for later burial with the mummy.

1. in ancient Egyptian sculpture, this is a cubic stone image with simplified body parts.
2. a picture, usually stylized, that represents an idea; can be used in as a form of writing; can also mean painting on a rock.
4. techniques where carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone used in construction, fitted together without mortar.
5. an Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull.
6. a fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts. In Egyptian temples, the windows that form the temple's uppermost level below the timber ceiling.
7. a system of writing using symbols or pictures.
8. a gift of gratitude to a deity.
15. the simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls, of an Egyptian temple.