Modual 2 art history art

Name

Votive Figurines

from

iraq

year

c. 3000 BCE

meaning

made to be in etrnal prayer, so that they can pray while the real person is not there

Name

Warka vase

from

iraq

year

c. 3000 BCE

meaning

animals and slaves bringing offerings and sacrafises to the goddess or preistece all in regesters and tells a story from bottom to top, it was stolen in 2003 after a bombing in iraq and was returned damaged years later.

name

Bull Headed lyre

from

iraq

Year

c. 2500 BCE

meaning

it was burried with someone of high ststus, they importated lapus lazuli to place in this lyre, it have 4 regesters on the front, it is a depiction of life and follows the belife that life goes on after death

name

Stele of Hammurabi

from

iraq

Year

c. 1750 BCE

meaning

it is writen with the law code, hamurabi is standing infront of a sitting god, mostlyly the sun god to show that the god gave him the right to write the laws

name

palette of king narmer

from

egypt

year

c.3000 BCE

menaing

used as a stele, carved story, sugest the godess of motherhood is his mother since it was beloved that rulers came from the gods

name

Statue of khafre

from

Egypt

year

c. 2500 BCE

meaning

lager then life, idealized, on a throne with lions to show power, simbolisum of rulling both lower and upper eypt, serdab statue

name

hunt relief

from

mastaba of ti, Egypt

year

c. 2350 BCE

menaing

to show hunting for pleasure, show class, alagory for triumfing over death

name

House Altar Relief of Akhenaten and his Family

from

egypt

year

c. 1350 BCE

meaning

he is depicted as man and woman, sun and its rays comming on the family to show sun god, pollythisum after his death

name

Musicians and Dancers Fresco

from

Tomb of Nebaumun, egypt

year

c. 1400 BCE

menaing

first demonstration of fluididy in egypt art, use of depth, expiramental

Name

Figurine of a woman

from

Cycladic Islands

Year

c. 2500 BCE

meaning

simaler to the venus statues, could be linked to fertility but no proof

Name

bull leaping fresco

from

Crete, Greece

year

c. 1400 BCE

meaning

could be a ritual, caramony, or entertainment, hard to understand who everyone is in the fresco

name

snake goddess figurine

from

crete greece

year

c. 1600 BCE

menaing

we dont have any context on this ot what is it, it could be a dancer, preistec, goddess or enetertainer but there is no way of knowing

name

lion gate

from

Mycenae, Greece

year

c. 1250 BCE

menaing

heraldic composition, could have been apotropaic, or could have been to show power, it was over entuance gates to the city

name

Funerary masks

from

Mycenae, Greece

year

c. 1600 BCE

meaning

this sheet of gold peaten to a shape, usualy over a mold, these has the featurs of the individuals they were burryed with, one was tampered with to make it look like the person that found it.

name

warrior krater

from

Mycenae, Greece

year

c. 1300 BCE

meaning

used to mix wine with water, woman waving men off to war, ram horns as handles

name

Tortoise Shell Oracle “Bone”

from

china

year

c.1200 BCE

meaning

people would write questions on the bone, the bone would be hit with a hot rod and someone who could read the cracks would do so, had to be a member of the dynasty to use the oracle bone

name

Bronze Ritual Wine-Pouring Vessel (Guang)

from

China

year

c. 1250 BCE

meaning

vessel used to pore wine in ritual, made in 3 parts body handle and lid, high class

name

Jade Pendant in the Shape of a Phoenix

from

china

year

c.1250 BCE

meaning

it was belived that the leaders of the dinasty decended from a phonix