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| An ancient upright slab or pillar usually with an inscription or engraving erected for funerals or commemorative purposes |
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| A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked by size one above the other according to status or authority, in art most authoritative is the biggest. |
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| A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, esp. on a wall near the ceiling |
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an image created as a devotional offering to a god or other deity.
(wide eyed sculptures) |
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| A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. |
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| the use of shading in an art piece to create the illusion of 3 dimensional forms. |
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| One of the earliest forms of writing. It consisted of wedge shaped symbols usually imprinted in clay. Used throughout ancient Mesopotamia. |
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a representation of an animal or human from two simultaneous viewpoints.
(Egyptian art, chest is turned or cave paintings) |
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| A stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems |
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| An ancient Egyptian collection of texts designed to ensure the safe passage of a person's soul through Amenti (the Egyptian Hell). |
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| Egyptian architect and scholar, who was later deified. It is thought that he designed the step pyramid built at Saqqara for third-dynasty pharaoh Djoser |
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| A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats |
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| the title of the ancient Egyptian kings |
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| The nemes was the striped headcloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt. It covered the whole crown and back of the head and nape of the neck (sometimes also extending a little way down the back) and had two large flaps which hung down behind the ears and in front of both shoulders |
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| A representation of a sacred serpent as an emblem of supreme power, worn on the headdresses of ancient Egyptian deities and sovereigns |
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| A god regarded as the protector of the monarchy, typically represented as a falcon-headed man. He assumed various aspects: in the myth of Isis and Osiris he was the posthumous son of the latter, whose murder he avenged |
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| A supreme god of the ancient Egyptians, identified with the sun god Ra and in Greek and Roman times with Zeus and Jupiter (under the name Ammon) |
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| A god originally connected with fertility, husband of Isis and father of Horus. He is known chiefly through the story of his death at the hands of his brother Seth and his subsequent restoration to a new life as ruler of the afterlife |
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| The god of mummification, protector of tombs, typically represented as having the head of a jackal |
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| A moon god, the god of wisdom, justice, and writing, patron of the sciences, and messenger of Ra, head of an ibis (bird with skinny beek) |
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| A sky goddess, the patron of love and joy, represented variously as a cow, with a cow's head or ears, or with a solar disk between a cow's horns |
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| the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( sun thingy with spike coming out) |
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| An ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, standing to a height of 17–20 feet (5–6 m), consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) in which to store offerings |
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| is an ancient Egyptian tomb structure that served as a chamber for the Ka statue of a deceased individual. ... |
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| were temples constructed adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, royal tombs in the Ancient Egypt. The temples were designed to commemorate the reign of the pharaoh by whom they were built, as well as for use by the pharaoh's cult after death |
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| A relief is a sculptured artwork where a carved or modelled form is raised—or, in a sunken-relief, lowered—from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project (or sink). Most hieroglyphs look like this. |
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