Ancient Near Eastern Art Questions and Answers
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Put Ancient Near Eastern Art civilizations in order (acronym)
Ans: SABHAP
Ancient Near Eastern Art buildings were created for
Ans: religion
buildings were made of
Ans: mud brick
Buildings were painted or faced with
Ans: tile, stone
large _ commemorated the achievements of ancient rulers were erected throughout
Mesopotamia
Ans: Stelai
guardian figures that are usually hybrids of _ and _ protected the entrances to
important sites
Ans: men, animals
Assyrian _ _ are among the first organized narrative works of art in history
Ans: lion reliefs
An audience hall in a persian palace
Ans: Apadana
The top element of a column
Ans: capital
system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow head shape
Ans: cuneiform
A round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces and image
Ans: cylinder seal
the front of a building. Sometimes, more poetically, a speaker can refer to a "side _"
or "rear _"
Ans: façade
the map of a floor of a building
Ans: ground plan