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Vocabulary 1.3
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Art History
9th Grade
09/16/2009

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Descriptiveperspective

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The method of showing space in which important people or objects are represented in a larger scale.
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Dynasty

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A linear succession of rulers from the same family.
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Engaged

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Attached to a wall or larger block of stone.
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Frontal

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The pose in which the figure faces directly forward.
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Hieroglyphics

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The Egyptian system of symbol writing.
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Mastaba

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A tomb shaped like a rectangle with slopling sides. A small room for offerings was above ground: the mummy and it's possessions were buried below ground.
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Necropolis

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A complex of buildings for the dead such as tombs: a city of the dead.
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Register

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One of the horizantel bands into which Egyptian paintings are divided.
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Shawbati

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A small figurine (usually mummiform) included in the tomb to perform manuel labor fot tthe deceased.
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Theocracy

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A system of government in which the rulers are priests.
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