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 Lamassu: a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art Negative space: empty space around ...

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