GCM 130 Final: Meggs Key Terms
25 Apr 2016
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Pictograph: an elementary picture or sketch representing the thing. Petroglyph: carved/scratched signs or simple figures on rock; can be pictograph or ideograph. Sumerians: brought high civilization into mesopotamia; created cuneiforms. Ziggurat: a stepped temple for priests and scribes (power) Rebus writing: evolved from cuneiform; pictures/pictographs representing words and syllables with the same or similar sound as the object depicted. Phonogram: pictures were used as phonograms, or graphic symbols for sound. Scribe: a person who writes documents by hand. Stele: an inscribed/carved stone or slab used for commemorative purposes; bears the code of hammurabi (list of crimes/punishments) Cylinder seal: mesopotamian identification object; prevents forgery, sealing documents, and proving authenticity. Hieroglyphics: a picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound; created by the egyptians. Rosetta stone: contain hieroglyphic, demotic, and greek inscriptions; deciphering done my jean-fran ois champollion in egypt. Determinatives: signs that determined how the following hieroglyphic character/symbol should be interpreted (glyph: obelisk: a tall, totem-like egyptian monument.
