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| A highly stylized depiction serving as a symbol for a person or object. |
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| an early form of writing with wedge shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a sylus; used primarily by Mesopotamians |
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| In Mesopotamia, a tall stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine |
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| a stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs. Used as a grave marker or memorial |
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| picture writing; words and ideas rendered in the form of pictorial symbols |
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| a flat-topped, one story building with slanted walls over an ancient Egyptian underground tomb. |
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