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Name: White Temple and Ziggurat


Culture: Near East, Sumerian


Location: Iraq


Date: 3500-2332 BCE


Material: Mud brick


Function: Dedicated to Anu (sky God), for worship

Name: Warka Vase


Culture: Near East, Sumerian


Location: Iraq


Date: 3500-2332 BCE


Material: Alabaster 3’ ¼”


Function: Depicts offerings to Inanna, shows a religious festival in honor of Inanna


Name: Statuettes from the Square Temple


Culture: Near East, Sumerian


Location: Iraq


Date: 3500-2332 BCE


Material: gypsum, shell, and black limestone


Function: Holding libations, there to represent constant prayer to the Gods


Name: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin


Culture: Near East, Akkadian
Location: Iran


Date: 2332-2150


Material: Pink sandstone 6’7”


Function: Commemorate the defeat of the Lullubi, king shown as God, diff registers

Name: Stele with law code of Hammurabi


Culture: Near East, Babylonian


Location: Susa, Iran


Date: 2150-1600


Material: basalt, 28”


Function: Hammurabi put 300 laws of the people on the lower part of the stele

Name: Lamassu (winged, human-headed bull)


Culture: Near East, Assyrian


Location: Citadel of Sargon II, Iraq


Date: 900-539


Material: Limestone, 13’ 10”


Function: At the entrance to the palace in order to "scare" the people entering, see 5 legs

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RELIEF FROM PALACE OF AHYNASIRPAL

Name: Palette of King Narmer


Culture: Pre-dynastic


Location: Egypt


Date: 3500-2920 BCE


Material: Slate, 2’ 1”


Function: Usually holds make-up, this one represents the unification of Egypt, falcon=horus


Name: Mortuary Precinct of Djoser


Artist: Imotep


Culture: Early Dynastic


Location: Egypt


Date: 2920-2575


Material: Limestone, 200'


Function: Used to honor Djoser

Name: Great Pyramids


Culture: Old Kingdom


Location: Gizeh, Egypt


Date: 2575-2134


Material: Brick


Function: Part of funerary complex with a mortuary temple attached

Name: Sculpture of Khafre


Culture: Old Kingdom


Location: Gizeh, Egypt


Date: 2575-2134


Material: Diorite, 5’6”


Function: In a burial chamber meant to keep the Ka if the body decomposes, horus above head, papyrus and lotus show unification on side

Name: Hypostyle Hall of Temple of Amen-Re


Culture: New Kingdom


Location: Thebes


Date: 1550-1070


Material: sandstone, columns: 66’ high


Function: Only priests and pharohs could enter sanctuary


Name: Statue of Akhenaton


Culture: New Kingdom


Location: Temple of Aton, Egypt


Date: 1550-1070


Material: Sandstone, 13’


Function: Possibly an attempt at portraying Aton (sexless sun disk God)

Name: Relief of Akhenaten


Culture: New Kingdom


Location: Egypt


Date: 1550-1070


Material: Limestone sunken relief, 1’¼”


Function: Shows unusual intimate family scene, in private shrine, sunken relief

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Minoan


Palace and Frescoes

Name: The Lion Gate


Culture: Mycenaen


Location: Greece


Date: 1300-1250 BCE


Material: Limestone, relief panel 9’6”


Function: Above entrance to Mycenae and meant to scare off intruders


Name: “Treasury of Atreus,”


Culture: Mycenaen


Location: Greece


Date: 1300-1250


Material: 43’ high


Function: Hidden temple

Name: Kouros


Culture: Archaic


Location: Attica, Greece


Date: 600 BCE


Material: Marble, 6’ 1/2”


Function: Funerary statue

Name: Kroisos


Culture: Archaic


Location: Anavysos, Greece


Date: 530 BCE


Material: Marble, 6’ 4”


Function: Grave marker of Kroisos (boy killed in battle), more naturalistic and rounded

Name: Achilles and Ajax playing dice


Artist: Exekias


Culture: Archaic


Location: Vulci, Italy


Dates: 540-530 BCE


Material: Clay, 2’ 8½”


Function: black figure, shows achilles and ajax playing dice, bodies mimic vase shape

Name: Three revelers (red figure)


Artist: Euthymides


Culture: Archaic


Location: Vulci, Italy


Date: 510 BCE


Material: Clay, 2’


Function: Red figure, represents bodies in unusual position with 3/4 rear view

Name: Kritios Boy from the Acropolis


Culture: Early Classical


Location: Athens, Greece


Date: 480 BCE


Material: Marble, 3’10”


Function: First time contrapposto was used to show how a person actually stands

Name: Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) or the Canon


Artist: Polykleitos


Culture: High Classical


Location: Greece


Date: 450- 440 BCE


Material: Bronze, 6’ 11”


Function: Polykleitos vision of the ideal statue of a nude male athlete or warrior, new canon

Name: Parthenon


Culture: High Classical


Location: Athens, Greece


Date: 447-432


Material: Pentelic marble


Function: Meant to be the 'perfect temple', very mathematically planned, x=2y+1

Name: Aphrodite


Artist: Praxiteles


Culture: Late Classical


Location: Knidos, Greece


Date: 350-340


Material: Marble, 6’ 8”


Function: God of love shown nude, accidentally caught her in the shower, first woman god nude

Name: Apoxyomenos (Scraper)


Artist: Lysippos


Culture: Late Classical


Location: Greece


Date: 330 BCE


Material: Bronze, 6’ 9”


Function: New canon, wanted statue to be looked at from many different angles, athlete scraping oil from the body

Name: Stag Hunt


Artist: Gnosis


Culture: Hellenistic


Location: Pella, Greece


Date: 300 BCE


Material: Pebbel Mosaic, 10’2”


Function: Like red figure painting, depicts animal hunt

Name: Altar of Zeus


Culture: Hellenistic


Location: Pergamon, Turkey


Date: 175 BCE


Material: Marble, width of 102’


Function: Shows the battle o the Gods vs giants, very new kind of art, 3D, diff body angles