Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE–300 CE

White Temple and its ziggurat

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq).

Sumerian.

c.3500-3000BCE.

Mud brick.

Palette of King Narmer. .

Predynastic Egypt.

c. 3000- 2920 BCE.

Greywacke

Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq).

Sumerian.

c. 2700 BCE.

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

Seated scribe.

Saqqara,Egypt.

OldKingdom,FourthDynasty.

c. 2620-2500 BCE.

Painted limestone.

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq).

Sumerian.

c.2600-2400BCE. Woodinlaidwithshell,lapislazuli,andredlimestone.

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx.

Giza,Egypt.

OldKingdom,FourthDynasty.

c. 2550-2490 BCE.

Cut limestone.

King Menkaura and queen.

OldKingdom,FourthDynasty.

c. 2490-2472 BCE.

Greywacke.

The Code of Hammurabi.

Babylon (modern Iran).

Susian.

c.1792-1750BCE.

Basalt.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall.

Karnak,nearLuxor,Egypt.

NewKingdom,18thand19th Dynasties.

Temple: c. 1550 BCE; hall: c. 1250 BCE.

Cut sandstone and mud brick.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut.

NearLuxor,Egypt.

NewKingdom,18thDynasty.

c.1473-1458BCE.

Sandstone,partiallycarvedintoarockcliff,andred granite.

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters.

NewKingdom(Amarna),18thDynasty.

c.1353-1335BCE.

Limestone.

Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin.

New Kingdom,18thDynasty.

c.1323BCE.

Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.

Last judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead ).

NewKingdom,19thDynasty.

c. 1275 BCE.

Painted papyrus scroll.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq).

Neo-Assyrian.

c. 720-705 BCE.

Alabaster.

Athenian agora.

Archaic through Hellenistic Greek.

600 BCE-150 CE.

Plan.

Anavysos Kouros.

Archaic Greek.

c. 530 BCE.

Marble with remnants of paint.

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis.

Archaic Greek.

c. 530 BCE.

Marble, painted details.

Sarcophagus of the Spouses.

Etruscan.

c. 520 BCE.

Terra cotta.

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes.

Persepolis, Iran. Persian.

c. 520-465 BCE.

Limestone.

Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo.

Master sculptor Vulca.

c. 510- 500 BCE.

Originaltempleofwood,mudbrick,ortufa (volcanic rock); terra cotta sculpture.

Tomb of the Triclinium.

Tarquinia, Italy.

Etruscan.

c. 480-470 BCE.

Tufa and fresco.

Niobides Krater.

Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece knownas the NiobidPainter.

c.460-450bce. Clay,red-figuretechnique(whitehighlights).

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer).

Polykleitos.Original

450-440 BCE.

Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze).

Acropolis.

Athens,Greece.

IktinosandKallikrates.

c. 447-410 BCE.

Marble.

Grave stele of Hegeso.

AttributedtoKallimachos.

c. 410 BCE.

Marble and paint.

Winged Victory of Samothrace.

Hellenistic Greek.

c. 190 BCE.

Marble

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon.

Asia Minor(present-dayTurkey).

HellenisticGreek.

c. 175 BCE.

Marble (architecture and sculpture).

House of the Vettii.

Pompeii, Italy.

Imperial Roman.

c. second century BCE; rebuilt c. 62-79 CE.

Cut stone and fresco.

Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii.

Republican Roman.

c. 100 BCE.

Mosaic.

Seated boxer.

Hellenistic Greek.

c. 100 BCE.

Bronze.

Head of a Roman patrician.

Republican Roman.

c. 75-50 BCE.

Marble.

Augustus of Prima Porta.

Imperial Roman.

Early first century CE.

Marble.

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater).

Rome, Italy.

Imperial Roman.

70-80 CE.

Stoneandconcrete.

Forum of Trajan. Rome, Italy.

Apollodorus of Damascus.

Forum and markets: 106-112 CE; column completed 113 CE.

Brick and concrete (architecture); marble (column).

Pantheon.

Imperial Roman.

118-125 CE.

Concrete with stone facing.

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus.

Late Imperial Roman.

c. 250 CE.

Marble.