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Mesopotamia: Sumerian culture (3500-2300 BC)
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Ziggurat of Ur, Iraq, c. 2100 BC
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Cylinder seal, with cuneiform writing Iraq, c. 3200-300 BC
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Female head from Uruk, Iraq, c. 3200-3000BC
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Carved vase, Uruk, Iraq c. 3200-3000 BC
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Statues from Tell Asmar, Iraq, c. 2700 BC
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Queen Puabi's tomb, Ur Iraq, c. 2600 BC: harp with Bulls head
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Akkadian period: (c. 2300-2150 BC)
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Head of an Akkadian Ruler, from Nineveh, Iraq, c. 2300-2200 BC
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Stele of naramisn, from Susa Iran c. 2250 BC
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Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BC)
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Stele of Hammurabi, from Susa, Iran, c. 1760 BC
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Later near eastern art: Assyrian period (c. 1000-620 BC)
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Khorsabad (Dur sharrukin), palace and lamassu, c. 720 BC
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Lion hunt and dying lioness Nineveh, c. 640 BC
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Neo-Babylonian period (620-539 BC)
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Babylon, Ishtar gate, c. 575 BC
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Achaemenid period (539-331 BC): Persian empire
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Persepolis, palace of Darius and Xerxes, with wall reliefs, bull capitals c. 500 BC
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