Ancient Near Eastern Art
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| Babylonian deed of sale. | This deed graphically shows the impressions made by the stylus in the soft clay.
c. 1750 BCE
18th century BCE
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| Ait Ben Haddou Morocco | Mud brick kasbahs
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| Sumerian; Ait Ben Haddou | Mud Bricks
4000-2340 BCE
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| "White Temple" | Ziggurat
Uruk (Warka), Iraq
c. 3500-3000 BCE
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| Female Head | Uruk (Warka), Iraq
3500-3000 BCE
Limestone
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| Votive statues | Square Temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq
ca. 2900-2600 BCE
limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
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| The Goat in Thicket (Ram and Tree) | Great Death Pit in the Royal Cemetery of Ur. Muqaiyir, Iraq
2600 BCE (27th century BCE)
wood, gold, and lapis lazuli
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| Standard of Ur, front and back sides | c. 2600 BCE (27th century BCE)
wood inlaid with shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli
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| Bull Lyre | tomb of King Abargi, Ur (Muqaiyir), Iraq.
c. 2600 BCE
wood with gold, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in modern wood support
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| Inlay panel from the soundbox of a harp | Ur (Muqaiyir), Iraq.
c. 2600 BCE
shell and bitumen
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| Priest-King Feeding Sacred Sheep | Mesopotamian
cylinder seals
c. 3300 BCE
Uruk (Warka), Iraq
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| Bronze head of Sargon | Nineveh
Sumero-Akkadian
c. 2340 -2284 BCE
bronze
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| Stele of Naram-Sin | Middle Eastern, Persian
c. 2254-2218 BCE
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| Ziggurat of King Urnammu | Ur. Muqaiyir, Iraq
c. 2100 BCE
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| Head of Gudea | Lagash (Telloh), Iraq
c. 2100 BCE
diorite
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| Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan | Girsu (Telloh), Iraq
c. 2100 BCE
diorite
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| Upper part of stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi | c. 1760 BCE
diorite
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| Reconstruction drawing of the citadel of Sargon II. After Charles Altman. Dur Sharrukin | (Khorsabad), Iraq
c. 721-705 BCE
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| Gate of the Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin | (Khorsabad), Iraq
742-706 BCE
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| Fugitives Crossing River | relief (sculpture)
Assyrian
c. 883–859 BCE
Nimrud (Calah), Iraq
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| Lion Hunt relief, from of Ashurbanipal. | c. 850 BCE
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| Ishtar Gate | Babylon, Iraq
c. 575 BCE
glazed brick
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| Hattusas: Lion Gate General view | 14th - 13th C. B.C
Bogazköy (Turkey)
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| Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx. | Phoenician.
Found at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq
c.900-700 BCE
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| Temple of Solomon; reconstruction | Hebrew
c. 457–450 BCE
Jerusalem, Israel
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| Painted beaker, from Susa. | c. 5000-4000 BCE
Portrays a ram.
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| Palace of Darius and Xerxes | Persian
518–460 BCE
Persepolis, Iran
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| Rhyton with Lion's Body | Achaemenid Persian
metalwork
500-450 BCE
gold
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| Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes | Persepolis, Iran
c. 500 BCE
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| Bull capital | Persepolis, Iran
c. 500 BCE
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| Darius and Xerxes Giving Audience | Persian
relief (limestone)
c. 490 BCE
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| Shapur I Triumphing over the Roman Emperors Philip the Arab and Valerian, Naksh-I-Rustam | (near Persepolis), Iran
260-272
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| Palace of Shapur I | Ctesiphon, Iraq
242-272
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| Plate with king hunting rams | Iran
Sasanian period
A.D. 5th-6th century
Silver, mercury gilding, niello inlay
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