ARH 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Apotropaic Magic, Ashlar, Ziggurat
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A thin coating applied to pottery to seal and decorate the surface; it may be colored, transparent, or opaque, and glossy or matte. glaze. Bricks painted and then kiln fired to fuse the color with the baked clay. glazed brick. A composition or arrangement that is symmetrical on either side of a (often larger) central figure. heraldic composition. An artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance. hierarchy of scale. In assyrian art, guardians in the form of man-headed winged bulls. iamassu. A rich, ultramarine, semiprecious stone used for carving and as a source for pigment. lapis lazuli. From the greek for "land between two rivers," the two rivers are the tigris and the euphrates. mesopotamia. The shaping or fashioning of three-dimensional forms in a soft material, such as clay. modeling. Simplified pictures that stand for words or ideas; an early form of writing. pictographs.
