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17 Cards in this Set
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Mesopotamia, Uruk
Uruk period c. 3500 BC Structure support and decoration Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
cone mosaics
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Mesopotamia, Uruk
Uruk period, 3500-3000 BC Alabaster Fertility festivals, association with Inanna Iraq Museum, Baghdad |
Uruk vase
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Uruk
Uruk period c.3500-3000 BC Stone and polished brick Temple |
White Temple
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Tell Asmar, Sumarian
Early dynastic c. 2800-2300 BC Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum Possibly representations of wealthy worshipers |
Abu temple votive figures
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Ur, Sumeria (from tomb of Queen Puabi)
Early dynastic c. 2685 BC Wood with inlaid gold, lapis lazuli, and shell Musical instrument University Museum Pennsylvania U. Philidelphia |
Lyre sound box
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From Ninevah, Iraq - Akkadian
Akkad c. 2300 BC Bronze May be portrait of Sargon I founder of Akkadian dynasty Museum of Antiquities, Baghdad |
Head of an Akkadian Ruler
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Akkadian from Susa
Akkad c. 2254-2218 BC Pink sandstone Marks Akkadian victory |
Victory stele of Naram-Sin
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Sumerian- Lagash, Iraq
Neo-Sumerian c. 2100 BC Diorite Honor Gudea, leader of Lagash |
body of Gudea
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Sumerian- Ur
Neo-Sumerian c. 2100-2050 Mud brick Temple |
Nanna Ziggurat
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Amorites- From Susa, capital of Elam (Iran)
Babylon c.1792-1750 BC Basalt Inscribed with law code of Hammurabi Louvre, Paris |
Stele of Hammurabi
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King Assurnasirpal II
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From Nimrud, Iraq/ Assyrian
c. 883- 859 BC British Museum, London |
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King Assurnasirpal II Hunting Lions
Nimrud, Iraq/ Assyrian Assyria c. 883-859 BC Alabaster relief British Museum, London |
Low relief of King Assurnasirpal II in a chariot
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Dying Lioness
Ninaveh, Assyrian Assyria c. 668-627 BC Alabaster relief British Museum, London |
Detail of the Great Lion Hunt
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Lamassu gateway from Sargon II palace
Assyria c. 720 BC Limestone Louvre, Paris |
Gateway
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Ishtar Gate
Neo- Babylonian, c.575 BC Glazed brick Staatlich Museen, Berlin |
Gateway
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Apadana, Persepolis
Persian, c. 500 BC Used as an audience hall |
Temple with low relief sculpture
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City attacked with a battering ram.
Low relief sculpture from palace of Assurnasirpal II |
Assyrian
Assyria, c.883-859 BC Alabaster relief British Museum, London |
