Download Study Guide - History of Architecture | ARCH 3115 and more Study notes History of Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! Lecture 2: Egypt Names and Terms Archaic Period: 3100 to 2700 BC Batter: in architecture, the slope of a wall surface. Greek Period: 332 to 30 BC Heb-Sed: a jubilee festival celebrating the reconsecration of the pharaoh's rule. Hypostyle: an architectural space containing a continuous grid of columns. Late Period: 712 to 332 BC Lower Egypt: Egypt from the Delta to Memphis. Middle Kingdom: 2040 to 1640 BC (Note that the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms are separated by socalled "Intermediate Periods.") New Kingdom: 1550 to 1070 BC Old Kingdom: 2700 to 2200 BC Peristyle: a ring of columns arranged around a building or the perimeter of a courtyard. Portrait mask: a covering for the head and upper body of the deceased representing their appearance in life. Procession of the Divine Barque: ceremony in which priests carry the cult boat of the (new) sun god Amun for a trip by water and land between Karnak and Luxor. Pylon Temple: form of Egyptian temple consisting of a series of pylons (battered walls), peristyle courts and hypostyle rooms arranged in sequence along an axis with an inner sanctum for the cult statue in a chamber farthest from the entrance. Rock cut temple: a temple carved out of solid stone and sometimes having the appearance of a temple assembled out of individual stones in the normal way. Roman Period: 30 BC to 395 AD Tall House: A traditional Egyptian house form of up to four stories. Upper Egypt: Egypt from Memphis to Aswan MAJOR STRUCTURES AND SITES Pyramid Complex of King Djoser (Zosor), Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty c. 2675-2625 BC. Bent Pyramid of King Seneferu, Dahshour, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c 2570 BC Giza (Gizeh) Pyramids: Cheops, Chephren, Mycerinus Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c 2500 BC Valley Temple of Chephren, Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty, c. 2500 BC Sphinx at Gizeh, Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty, c. 2550 BC Temple Complex of Karnak, Temple of Amun-Re: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty c. 1290-1250 BC Temple Complex of Luxor: New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, c. 1280-1220 BC Avenue of the sphinxes (Luxor) New kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c 1380 BC Temple of Mentuhotep II (directly across the Nile from Karnak/Luxor at Dier el-Bahri), Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, c 2400 BC
