Across
- 2. large burial site; "city of the dead"
- 5. set of documents found by archeologists that have been deciphered for a greater understanding of Aegean civilization
- 7. pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster
- 8. a city walled for defense
- 10. a system of construction in which two posts support a lintel or beam to span an opening
- 12. the immortal human life force
- 13. the degree of lightness or darkness in a color
- 15. the simple and massive gateway with sloping walls of an Egyptian temple
- 16. the organization of forms in an artwork
- 20. the great audience hall in Persian palaces
- 22. what the art is made out of or composed of
- 23. the large reception hall in a mycenaean palace, fronted by an open, two-columned porch
- 24. Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-head winged bull
Down
- 1. an independent, self-governing city
- 3. a system of writing using symbols or pictures
- 4. the purity or brightness or dullness of a color
- 6. a circle of monoliths, column shafts all in one piece made in stone or block
- 8. a female figure that functions as a supporting column
- 9. the path of a point moving in space, defines an artwork's shape and form
- 11. a temple with a circular plan
- 14. to cut into a surface with a sharp instrument, method of decoration on metal or pottery
- 17. "great" stone" in Greek, large roughly hewn stone used in the construction of prehistoric structures
- 18. graphic technique in which design is incised
- 19. carved skull decoration, usually an ox
- 21. formed in relief by beating a metal plate form the back, leaving an impression on the face; metal is hammered into hollow mold of wood