ACROPOLIS

Meaning 'high city'

A Greek temple complex

Located on a hill over the city

AMPHORA

- two-handled Greek jug/storage jar

- a plain, unornamented lintel on the entablature**

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/image/glossary/architrave.jpg

CARYATID

- a building column shaped like a human figure

- must be long haired and robed to support building

CELLA*

- the main room of a Greek temple where the god is housed

CONTRAPPOSTO*

- a relaxed, graceful position

- tilted shoulders and hips

- bent knees

CORNICE*

- a projecting ledge over a wall

http://chestofbooks.com/architecture/Building-Construction-V3/images/23-String-Course-Cornice-392.jpg

ENTABLATURE*

- the upper story of a Greek temple

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Entablature_(PSF).png

FRIEZE*

- the horizontal band of a sculpture

KILN*

- an oven used for making pottery

KOUROS

- a male figure in Archaic style

- a youth standing

- often nude

KRATER*

- a large Greek bowl used for mixing water and wine

KYLIX*

- a Greek drinking cup

METOPE**

- a small relief sculpture on the facade of a Greek temple

http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Temples/Troy/Troy_Metope.jpg

MOSAIC*

- a deocration of pieces using stone, marble or colored glass, called TESSERAE (cube tile), that are cemented to a wall or a floor

PEDIMENT*

- a triangular top of a temple that contains sculpture

http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/oxford/Oxford_Architecture/0198606788.aedicule.1.jpg

PROPYLAEUM/PROPYLAEA*

- a gateway leading to a Greek temple

http://www.greece-athens.com/pages_images/6.jpg

RELIEF SCULPTURE

- sculpture that projects from a flat background

- bas relief: low relief

SHAFT

- the body of a column

THOLOS*

- an ancient Greek circular shrine

http://www.gottwein.de/hell2000pl/tholos.gif

TRIGLYPH

- a projecting grooved element alternating with a metope on a Greek temple

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