Statues of Votive Figures
Name/Date: Statues of Votive Figures/c.2700 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean
Medium: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Square Temple of Eshnunna (Modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Function: made for worship
Standard of Ur
Name/Date: Standard of Ur/c.2600-2400 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean
Medium : Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Royal Tombs at Ur(Modern Tell el Muqayyar, Iraq
Function: A sound box for
The Code of Hammurabi
Name/Date: The Code of Hammurabi/ c.1792-1750 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean
Medium: Black Basalt
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Babylon(modern Iran)
Function: to provide the laws of Mesopotamia for the people to see and follow.
Form: dar
Lamassu
Name/Date: Lamassu/ c.720-705 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean
Medium: Alabaster
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin
Function: a guardian
Form: stylized, can see all 5 legs at every angle, stylized beard.
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White Temple and its Ziggurat
Name/Date: White Temple and its Ziggurat/ c. 350000-3000 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean
Medium: Mud Brick
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq)
Function: a bridge between earth and heaven
Form: geometric
Content: tall t
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
Name/Date: Apadana/c. 520-465 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean Medium: Limestone
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Persepolis, Iran
Function: served as a place for royal gatherings. Used as propaganda to display wealth
Form: relief carvings al
Palette of King Namur
Name/Date: Palette of Namur/3000-2920 B.C.E.
Period: Ancient Mediterranean
Medium: greywacke
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Egypt
Function: holds makeup
Form: stylized, composite shapes
Content: Narmer is pictured about to strike another. It pi
Seated Scribe
Name/Date: Seated Scribe/ c.2620-2500 B.C.E.
Period: Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty
Medium: Painted Limestone
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
Function: placed in own tomb
Form: orange hue, negative spaces, sculpted,
Content:
chubby(well
King Menkaure and Queen
Name/Date: King Menkaure and Queen/c.2490-2472 B.C.E.
Period: Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty
Medium:Greywacke
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Giza, Egypt
Function: In the tomb of Menkaure
Form: linear, very straight and upright,stiff
Content: King Men
Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and 3 Daughters
Name/Date: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and 3 Daughters/c.1353-1335 B.C.E.
Period: New Kingdom(Amarna) 18th dynasty
Medium: Limestone
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Egypt
Function: Image of the king and queen, transitional
Form: curve-linear, relief c
Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
Name/Date:Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin/c.1323 B.C.E.
Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Medium: Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
Artist: Unknown
Patron: King Tut
Location: Egypt
Function: Tomb
Form: colorful, gold, shining, stylize
Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
Name/Date: Great Pyramids/c.2550-2490 B.C.E.
Period: Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty
Medium: Cut Limestone
Artist: Egyptians
Patron: The pharaohs and other royals
Location: Giza, Egypt
Function: houses the dead pharaohs and royals and guides them into the afterl
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
Name/Date: Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle hall/c.1550 B.C.E.& c.1250 B.C.E.
Period: New Kingdom, 18th and 19th dynasties
Medium: Cut sandstone and mud brick
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location:Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt.
Function: a place of worship,
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Name/Date: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut/c.1473-1458 B.C.E.
Period: New Kingdom,18th dynasty
Medium : Sandstone partially carved into a rock cliff and red granite
Artist: unknown
Patron: Hatshepsut
Location: Near Luxor, Egypt
Function: created to be a cen
Last judgment of Hu-Nefer (page from the Book of the Dead)
Name/Date: Last judgement of Hu-Nefer/c.1275 B.C.E.
Period: New Kingdom 19th dynasty
Medium: Painted Papyrus roll
Artist: Unknown
Patron:Unknown
Location: From Hu-Nefer's tomb in Egypt
Function: Instruction Manual for death, a guidance into afterlife
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