Términos

Meaning "carved [it]," in printmaking indicates the one who engraved the plate or carved the wood block.

Studios in which one or more master sculptors create works, supervise assistants, and instruct pupils.

Members of a species of tree squirrel native to the eastern and midwestern United States and southeastern Canada, having a gray coat with reddish overtones, a white belly, and a large bushy tail.

The process of removing rough or unsuitable parts of a material during processing. Examples of use are in reference to processing fibers, tanning of leather, processing bark, or processing stone.

Knives used to smooth leather during tanning. For tools used to smooth stone, use "scotches." For wooden tools used for smoothing and beating fibers, use "swingles."

Escudo largo originado en Italia y utilizado por la infantería pesada romana desde el siglo VIII a. C. hasta el siglo V a. C., Fueron de forma rectangular u oval, originariamente de madera o mimbre, más tarde de madera recubierta de cuero con una protuberanciacentral de metal y un espinazo longitudinal en la parte trasera.

Drinking cups, usually footed and having two handles but sometimes only one handle; typically refers to ancient vessels of this type. They are distinguised from kylikes by having deeper bowls.

Class containing around 200 species of cup animals, including some jellyfish. Life histories commonly involve alternation of a very small polyp with a medusa that develops from an ephyra released by the polyp. They are divided by four longitudinal septa producing tetramerous radial symmetry; gonads are endodermal. They have marginal sensory structures (rhopalia) with statocysts and/or ocelli. They are most abundant in coastal waters, but oceanic species exist.

General term referring to either of two cosmopolitan genera of invertebrate marine animals in the Pleurobrachiidae family, the Hormiphora and the Pleurobrachia.

General term for any member of the class Crinoidea having a stalk that secures it to the ocean bottom, in contrast to other members of the class that can travel. Sea lilies have a cup-shaped body mounted on a stalk with branched, feathery arms studded with tube feet that trap food and convey it to the mouth in the center of the upper side; native to deep ocean.

Confederation of tribes, primarily aggressive seafarers, who invaded eastern Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age, in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE. They may be associated with the Philistines, among other groups.

Form of sodium chloride, with small amounts of magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, and calcium sulfate, that is obtained from the evaporation of salt water; often comprising larger crystals than table salt.

General term referring to members of two families and at least seven living species of the Testudines order, distinguished from other turtles because they live in the sea rather than in fresh or brackish water or on land.

Artificially produced radioactive element in Group VIb of the periodic table, atomic number 106; first created in 1974. Named after the American nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. It can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature.

Script based on the stamping seal style. Generally refers to the ancient Chinese written scripts dating before the Han clerical script, including the great seal script and the small seal script. Generally speaking, written scripts before the Qin dynasty are called the great seal script. After the state of Qin united China in 211 BCE, a team of officials led by Li Si, the Prime Minister at that time, standardized the written scripts, and the new script is called the small seal script.

A substance designed to seal a surface or container against the passage of a gas or liquid, or to fill up cracks.

The work or industry of capturing and rendering seals.