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Art history help 10 pts !?
1. This was a small statue that represented a human, which was placed inside a temple for the purpose of praying for its owner, in its owner’s absence:
ziggurat
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votive
2. The funerary temple of Hatshepsut was built into this natural formation.
a pyramid
cliffs of a mountain side
banks of the Amazon River
top of a granite mound
3 .Egyptian glassmakers became expert in this art, in which glass paste is fired to produce a smooth and shiney opaque finish.
faience
encaustic
frescoe
cartouche
4 .The earliest pottery in the Near East dates to about this time:
4,000 BC
2,000 BC
7,000 BC
10,000 BC
5 .Nebuchadnezzar II turned this city into one of the most splendid cities of the time.
Jerusalem
Jericho
Uruk
Babylon
1. A votive is a small statue
2. cliffs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Bahri
3. Faience are small glass beads
4. Halafian culture dates to at least 5300 – 6000 BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Halaf
7000 years is closest answer
5. Nebuchadnezzar built Babylon
The open wing – black grand piano with an open wing, and the two hundred birds-starlings.
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