Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. What is a frieze? Where is this frieze located? Why was there animal figures allowed on the frieze?

Answer:

A frieze is a horizontal band of sculpted decoration on a building. This frieze is the Mshatta Facade, originally from an 8th-century Umayyad palace in Jordan and now displayed in the Pergamon Museum. Animal figures were allowed because it decorated a secular palace rather than a religious structure, where Islamic aniconism rules were less strictly applied.