Dictionary
Index
Abacus
Ablaq
Ablaq (Architecture)
Abu
Adyton
Agora
Ahlaq
Ambon
Ambulatory
Amduat
Amir
Amulet
Ankh
Apis
Apse
Arabesque
Archimede's screw
Architrave
Aton
Azan (Arabic)
Ba
Bab (Arabic)
Badarian
Baldachin
Barque Shrine
Barque
Basilica
Bas-relief
Bayt (Arabic)
Birth house
Benben
Bennu
Bey
Birket
Book of the Dead
Broken pediment
Burg
Buttress
Cadi
Caliph (Khalifa, Khalif)
Calishe
Canopic jars
Capital
Caravansary
Cartonnage
Cartouche
Cataract
Cavetto cornice
Cenotaph
Chief Steward
Clerestory
Coffer
Coffin Text
Colonnade
Colossus
Column
Contrapposto
Count
Coptic
Copts
Corbel
Corbelled arch
Cornice
Cornishe
Cruciform
Crux ansata
Cuneiform
Cursive
Dar
Darih
Decans
Deir
Demotic (ancient Greek
demotika)
Dentil
Dikkah
Dhikr
Divan hall
Divine Adoratrice
Djed pillar
Duat
Electrum
Encaustic
Ennead
Episcopal
Eucharist
Evil eye
Exonarthex
Faience
Fan-Bearer on the Right of
the King
Fecundity Figure
Fellahin
False door
Feddan
Flagellum
Fresco
Frieze
Funerary cones
Geb
Galabayya
Ghaffir
God's Father
Gynaikion
Hadith
Hagg
Hajj
Hajji
Hamam
Harem
Haramlik
Haykal
Heb-Sed
Hegira
Heikal
Herald
Hieratic
Hieroglyphs
High Priest
Horus name
Hyksos
Hypostyle
Iconostasis
Ichneumon
Imam
Industry
Isnik
Ithyphallic
Jinn.
Joggled
Ka
Kaaba (Kabah)
Kabah
Kaftan
Keep
Khalifa (Khalif)
Khalif (Khalifa)
Khamsin
Khan
Khanqah
Khedive
Kheker frieze
Kiosk
Kubri
Kufic
Kursi
Kuttab
Lantern
Lector Priest
Liturgy
Liwan
Loggia
Logogram
Lusterware
Madrasa
Malqaf
Maliki
Mamissi
Mamluk
Mandorla
Maristan
Masgid
Mashhad
Mashrabiyya (Mashribiyya)
Mashribiyya
Mastaba
Melkites
Menat
Midan
Mihrab
Minaret
Minbar
Mistress of the
House
Monolith
Monophysitism
Mosaic
Mosque
Moulid (Mulid)
Muezzin
Mulid
Mustashfa
Naos
Narthex
Nashki
Nastaliq
Natron
Nave
Necropolis
Niello
Nilometer
Nome
Nomarch
Obelisk
Ogdoad
Opening of the Mouth
Orans Position
Orthogram
Osirid pillar
Ostracon (Plural ostraca)
Overseer of Sealers
Palace facade
Papyrus
Parapet
Pectoral
Pediment
Pendentive
Peristyle
Phonogram
Pluvial
Portico
Praenomen
Pronaos
Prophet
Propylon
Pylon
Pyramidion
Qa'a
Qasr
Qibba
Qibla Wall (Qiblah Wall)
Qiblah
Rab
Ranking title
Reserve heads (Portrait
heads)
Repousse
Revetment
Riwaq
Rondel
Sa
Sabil
Sabbakhin
Sabil Kuttab
Saff tomb
Sahn
Sakiya (Saqiya)
Salamlik
Saqiya
Sed festival
See
Semogram
Senet
Septuagint
Serapeum
Serdab
Serekh
Shabti
Shawabti
Shaduf
Shah
Shia
Shi'i
Shi'ites
Sistrum
Spandrel
Sphinx
Squinches
Stalactite
decorations
Standard
Bearer of the Lord of the Two Lands
Stele
Sultan
Sunk relief
Sunni
Suqs
Tabut
Talatat
Tarboushe
Tasian
Taxogram
Temenos
Tempera
Theban triad
Tiraz
Torus (Torus molding)
Transept
Tree Goddess
Tribune
Triforium
Trilobe apse
Truss
Underworld books
Uraeus
Ushabti
Vault
Viceroy of Kush
Voussoirs
Wafd
Waqf
Was-scepter
Wedjat-eye
Wikala
Winged disk
Yaru, Fields of
Zawiya
Ziyada
Ziyadah (Ziyada)
Zodiac
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