This piece has the column of a Greek style but the figures on the front and the sphinx on the top look very much like Egyptian style. The feet were place on in front of the other in a very rigid position. ... The Egyptians used to place the feet and legs perfectly straight and one foot in front of the other. ... The face and hair was not realistic looking, they used horizontal lines on the back of the head in order to represent the hair. ... The head is then usually turned as a profile yet the eyes are as if you were looking at it from the front. ...

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Small temples had a two-columned front porch, sometimes with a portico before it. Larger temples, with front and back porches, might have a six- columned portico before each porch or be entirely surrounded by a colonnade. ... Also characteristic are the flower like decorations, which are blobs of paint scored with lines. ...

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It has 5 legs (appears to be walking from the side, and standing erect from the front). ... VOCABULARY Apadana: an audience hall in a Persian palace Capital: the top element of a column Cuneiform: a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow-head shape Cylinder seal: a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image Facade: the front of a building Ground plan: the map of a floor of a building Hierarchy of scale: a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art Lama...

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