AP Art History Mesopotamia and Egypt

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White Temple and its ziggurat

3,500-3,000 BCE
Mud brick
Uruk (modern day Warka, Iraq)
Sumerian

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt
3000-2920 BCE
Greywacke

Statues of votive figures from the Square Temple of Eshnunna

2,700 BCE
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
Tell Asmar, Iraq
Sumerian

Seated Scribe

Egyptian Old Kingdom
2620-2500 BCE
Painted limestone
Saqqara, Egypt

Standard of Ur

2,600-2,400 BCE
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, an red limestone
Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq
Sumerian

Great Pyramids (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx

Egyptian Old Kingdom
2550-2490 BCE
Cut limestone
Giza, Egypt

King Menkaure and Queen

Egyptian Old Kingdom
2490-2472 BCE
Greywacke

Code of Hammurabi

1,792-1,750 BCE
Basalt
Babylon → Susa, Iran
Babylonian → Susian

Temple of Amun-Re

Egyptian New Kingdom
Temple: 1550 BCE, Hall: 1250 BCE
Cut sandstone
Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Egyptian New Kingdom
1473-1458 BCE
Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite
Near Luxor, Egypt

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Egyptian New Kingdom (Amarna Period)
1353-1335 BCE
Limestone

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

Egyptian New Kingdom
1323 BCE
Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer from The Book of the Dead

Egyptian New Kingdom
1275 BCE
Painted papyrus scroll

Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II

720-705 BCE
Alabaster
Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

520-465 BCE
Limestone
Persepolis, Iran
Persian