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Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, Uruk ca. 3100 BC. The white-washed walls stood on a high platform called a Zigguart.
Bent-axis - The stairway approach favored by the Sumerians. Corners are oriented towards the cardinal points of the compass. May have been dedicated to Anu, the sky god. |
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Female head (possibly Inanna)
from Uruk (modern Warka) Iraq ca. 3,200-3,000 B.C.E. The 5,200-year-old artifact, which is a representation of female face, was found buried in an orchard on the outskirts of Baghdad after the Antiquities Department was tipped off by people who had reported seeing it there. |
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Warka Vase from Uruk (modern Warka) Iraq ca. 3,200-3,000 B.C.E.
alabaster approximately 3 ft. high First great work of narrative relief sculpture known. Depicts a religious festival in honor of Inanna Registers…. Ground lines…. Hierarchy of scale |
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Statuettes of worshippers
from Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar) Iraq ca. 2,700 B.C.E. gypsum, shell, black limestone tallest 30 in. high. Perpetual worshippers Found buried beneath the floor of a temple Range from 12”-30” Represent mortals |
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Statuettes of worhippers
from Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar) Iraq ca. 2,700 B.CE. gypsum, shell, black limestone tallest 30 in. high |
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Standard of Ur from Tomb 779, Royal Cemetery Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar) Iraqca. 2,600 B.C.E.
wood, shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone approximately 8 x 19 in. Royal Cemetery at Ur which was the home to biblical Abraham This was where the legends of musicians, servants, soldiers who accompanied the ‘kings and queens’, into the afterlife, giving their lives when their rulers died. Rectangular box with sloaping sides. War and Peace sides. Read from left to right, bottom to top. Note how ‘king’s’ head breaks through the register line We cannot connect the scene to a particular historical event. |
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Bull-headed lyre
from Tomb 789, Royal Cemetery Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar) ca. 2,600 B.C.E. wood, gold leaf, lapis lazuli approximately 65 in. high Music in the afterlife Resembles the instrument depicted in the Standard of Ur Bull’s head is gold leaf over a wooden form Details of lapis lazuli Figures similar to the animals acting like people in Aesop’s fables and Walt Disney’s creations |
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Cylinder seals ca. 2,600-2,000 B.C.E.
approximately 2 in. high. Generally made of stone- carnelian, jasper, lapis lazuli and agate Worn around the neck or wrist Sealed and identified their documents Protected storage jars and doors against unauthorized opening Seals and writing developed together in ancient Sumer. |
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Head of an Akkadian ruler
from Ninevah (modern Kuyunjik) Iraq ca. 2,250-2,200 B.C.E. Sargon means ‘true king’ New concept- fealty to one man rather than the city state During the rule of Naram-Sin, governors of cities were servants to the King Hollow cast life sized metal sculptures |
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Victory stele of Naram-Sin
from Susa, Iran ca. 2,254-2,218 B.C.E. sandstone 79 in. high Commemorates Naram-Sin’s conquest of the Lullubi. It is inscribed twice, once in honor of Naram-Sin and once by a Elamite king who had captured Sipur and claimed the stele as booty. |
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Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan
from Girsu (modern Telloh) Iraq ca. 2,100 B.C.E. diorite. 29 in. high @20 statues of Gudea survive, showing him seated or standing, hands tightly clasped, head shaven, sometimes wearing a woolen trimmed hat and dressed in a long garment rhar leaves one shoulder and arm exposed. |
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Stele with code of Hammurabi
from Susa, Iran ca. 1,780 B.C.E. basalt 88 in. high. The code is inscribed on a tall black basalt stele. The top is a relief showing Hammurabi in the presence of the flame-shouldered sun god Shamash. The king raises his hand in respect and the god bestows power on the king. Combined front and side view |
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Statue of Queen Napir-Asu
from Susa, Iran ca. 1,350-1,300 B.C.E.bronze and copper 50 3/4 in. high. Wife of one of the most powerful kings of Elam 3,760 pounds Cast with solid bronze core inside a hollowcast bronze shell |
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Lamassu (winged human headed bull)
from the citadel of Sargon II, Dar Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad) Iraq ca. 720-705 B.C.E. limestone 13 ft. 10 in. high. Sargon II’s guardians High reliefs Front view is the animal at rest Side view is the animal walking. Has five legs |
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Lamassu (winged human headed bull)
from the citadel of Sargon II, Dar Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad) Iraq ca. 720-705 B.C.E. limestone 13 ft. 10 in. high. Sargon II’s guardians High reliefs Front view is the animal at rest Side view is the animal walking. Has five legs |
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Ishtar Gate (restored)from Babylon, Iraqca. 575 B.C.E. glazed brick
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Palace of Darius I and Xerxes I
Persepolis, Iran ca. 521-465 B.C.E. |
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Head of Sasanian King (Shapur II?)
from Ctesiphon, Iraq ca. 350 C.E.silver with mercury gilding15 3/4 in. high |
