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Jansen's HoA - CH 2
Ancient Near Eastern Art
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Babylonian deed of sale. | This deed graphically shows the impressions made by the stylus in the soft clay. c. 1750 BCE 18th century BCE |
| Ait Ben Haddou Morocco | Mud brick kasbahs |
| Sumerian; Ait Ben Haddou | Mud Bricks 4000-2340 BCE |
| "White Temple" | Ziggurat Uruk (Warka), Iraq c. 3500-3000 BCE |
| Female Head | Uruk (Warka), Iraq 3500-3000 BCE Limestone |
| Votive statues | Square Temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq ca. 2900-2600 BCE limestone, alabaster, and gypsum |
| 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 |
| Standard of Ur, front and back sides | c. 2600 BCE (27th century BCE) wood inlaid with shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli |
| 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 |
| Inlay panel from the soundbox of a harp | Ur (Muqaiyir), Iraq. c. 2600 BCE shell and bitumen |
| Priest-King Feeding Sacred Sheep | Mesopotamian cylinder seals c. 3300 BCE Uruk (Warka), Iraq |
| Bronze head of Sargon | Nineveh Sumero-Akkadian c. 2340 -2284 BCE bronze |
| Stele of Naram-Sin | Middle Eastern, Persian c. 2254-2218 BCE |
| Ziggurat of King Urnammu | Ur. Muqaiyir, Iraq c. 2100 BCE |
| Head of Gudea | Lagash (Telloh), Iraq c. 2100 BCE diorite |
| Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan | Girsu (Telloh), Iraq c. 2100 BCE diorite |
| Upper part of stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi | c. 1760 BCE diorite |
| Reconstruction drawing of the citadel of Sargon II. After Charles Altman. Dur Sharrukin | (Khorsabad), Iraq c. 721-705 BCE |
| Gate of the Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin | (Khorsabad), Iraq 742-706 BCE |
| Fugitives Crossing River | relief (sculpture) Assyrian c. 883–859 BCE Nimrud (Calah), Iraq |
| Lion Hunt relief, from of Ashurbanipal. | c. 850 BCE |
| Ishtar Gate | Babylon, Iraq c. 575 BCE glazed brick |
| Hattusas: Lion Gate General view | 14th - 13th C. B.C Bogazköy (Turkey) |
| Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx. | Phoenician. Found at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq c.900-700 BCE |
| Temple of Solomon; reconstruction | Hebrew c. 457–450 BCE Jerusalem, Israel |
| Painted beaker, from Susa. | c. 5000-4000 BCE Portrays a ram. |
| Palace of Darius and Xerxes | Persian 518–460 BCE Persepolis, Iran |
| Rhyton with Lion's Body | Achaemenid Persian metalwork 500-450 BCE gold |
| Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes | Persepolis, Iran c. 500 BCE |
| Bull capital | Persepolis, Iran c. 500 BCE |
| Darius and Xerxes Giving Audience | Persian relief (limestone) c. 490 BCE |
| Shapur I Triumphing over the Roman Emperors Philip the Arab and Valerian, Naksh-I-Rustam | (near Persepolis), Iran 260-272 |
| Palace of Shapur I | Ctesiphon, Iraq 242-272 |
| Plate with king hunting rams | Iran Sasanian period A.D. 5th-6th century Silver, mercury gilding, niello inlay |
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