History of Ancient Art

Amrith ancient Antiphellos appears arch architecture artistic Asia Assyrian Athens beams blocks Borsippa bricks bronze building built calyx capital carved ceiling cella century B.C. Chaldæan chambers colored colossal columns construction cornice Corsabad court Coyundjic cubits decoration Doric dwellings dynasty Egypt Egyptian enclosure entablature entirely entrance epistyle erected Etruscan exterior figures floral column frieze front gable Gizeh Greece Greek hall head height Hellenic Herodotos holy horizontal hypostyle imitation important inscriptions intercolumniations interior Ionic king known later lion Lycia Lysippos masonry ment Mesopotamia metal metopes monuments Mykenæ nature Nile Nimrud Nineveh original ornament painting Palace of Darius peculiar peripteral Persepolis Persian Pheidias Phoenician piers portal portico preserved primitive probably pteroma pyramid reliefs remains representations represented revetment Rock-cut Tomb Roman roof ruins sculpture shaft side similar so-called space statues stone stood structure style temple terrace Tholos tion triglyphs tumulus upper Wall-painting walls Warka Zeus