Midterm Slides

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"Woman from Willendorf"
Austria
24,000 BCE - Paleolithic

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"Hall of Bulls"

painted by the Lascaux in the Dordogne region of Southern France

15,000 BCE
used 'composite pose' technique

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"Newgrange, Republic of Ireland"

3,000-2,500 BCE (Neolithic)

contains entoptic motifs for hallucinations

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"Stonehenge"
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
2,900-1,500 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Head of a Woman"
Sumerian in culture
From Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq)
3,300-3,000 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Twelve Votive Figures"
Sumerian in culture
From the Square Temple, Eshunna
2,900-2,600 BCE (Neolithic)

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"The Great Lyre with the Bull's Head"
Ancient Mesopotamia
From the Royal Tomb
2,600-2,500 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Stele of Hammurabi"
Babylonian
From Sippar but found at Susa
1,792-1,750 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Guardian Figures at Gate A of the Citadel of Sargon II"
Assyrian
From Dur Sharrukin
721-706 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Menkaure and a Queen"
(Queen probably Khamerernebty II)
Egyptian
From Giza (4th dynasty)
2,490-2,472 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Seated Scribe"
Egyptian
Found near tomb of Kai, Saqqara
(5th dynasty)
2,450-2,325 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Hatshepsut's Funerary Temple"
Egyptian
From Deir el-Bahri (18th dynasty)
1,473-1,458 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Akhenaten and his Family"
Egyptian (18th dynasty)
From Akhetaten
1,353-1,336 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Queen Nefertiti"
Egyptian (18th dynasty)
From Akhetaten
1,353-1,336 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris"
Egyptian (19th dynasty)
Illustration from a Book of the Dead
1,285 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Rosetta Stone"
Egyptian
Carved in hieroglyphs, demotic/Greek
196 BCE

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"Bull Leaping"
Minoan culture
From Knossos, Crete. (late Minoan)
1,450-1,375 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Octopus Flask"
Minoan culture (Marine style art)
From Palaikastro, Crete. (New palace)
1,500-1,450 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Lion Gate"
Minoan culture
From city of Mycenae (Hellendic Age)
1,250 BCE (Neolithic)

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"Mask of Agamemnon"
Minoan culture
From Mycenae, Greece.
1,600-1,550 BCE (Neolithic)