abacus | bastion | cornice or gorge |
Abu Ghurob | bathroom | courtyard |
Abu Shahrein (Eridu) | battered | crenellation or merlon |
Abu Simbel | battlements | cult temple |
Abusir | beam | curtine wall |
Abydos | Beni-Hasan | cyclopean masonry |
Achaemenian architecture | bent-axis approach | dais |
adobe | Beth-Shan | Dashur |
adyton | Beycesultan | Deir-el-Bahari |
agglutinative | Bît-Akitu | Deir-el-Ballas |
Alaça Hüyük | bitanu | Deir-el-Medineh |
altar | Bît-Hilani | Dendera |
Altintepe | bitumen | djed ornament |
Al-Ubaid | Boghazköy | dome |
ambulatory | brazier | door and doorway |
Anatolian architecture | Breitraum | double sanctuary |
annulet | Buhen | Edfu |
antae | building inscription | Egyptian architecture |
apadana | buttress | Elamite architecture |
apse | Byblos | elevation |
‘Aqar Quf | capital | Esna |
aqueduct | Carchemish | Et Tell |
Arad | casemate | false door |
arch | casemate wall | fireplace |
architect | Çatal Hüyük | fire temple and fire altar |
architectural representation | causeway | flagstaff |
architrave | cavetto | floor |
ashlar | ceiling | fluted |
Assur | cella | fortification |
Assyrian architecture | cellar | foundation |
axis | cenotaph | foundation deposit |
babanu | centring | garden |
Babylon | Choga Zanbil | gateway |
Babylonian architecture | citadel | Gezer |
baked bricks | clerestory | Giza |
bamah | colonnade | glacis |
barque chapel | column | glazed brick and tile |
Bastam | corbel | Godin-Tepe |
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Publication information:
Book title: A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture.
Contributors: Gwendolyn Leick - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 1988.
Page number: 249.
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