HOA Exam 1 ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

Temple of Anu (White Temple) at Uruk

• Sumerian

• Whitewashed temple, mudbrick platform

Uruk Vase

• Sumerian

• Alabaster

Votive Figures from the Temple of Anu

• Sumerian

• Eshnunna

• Gypsum, limestone, and alabaster with eyes inlaid with shell, black limestone, and lapis lazuli

Royal Standard of Ur

• battle side 

• Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone, and bitumen

• Sumerian

Stele of Naram-Sim

• Akkadian period

• Limestone

Seated Statue of Gudea

• Neo-sumerian

• Diorite

Law stele of Hammurabi

• Old Babylonian

• Black basalt

The Burney Relief (“Queen of the Night”

• Old Babylonian

• Straw-tempered clay pressed onto a mold

Colossal Winged Lion (Lamassu)

• Kalhu

• Gypsum

• Neo-Assyrian

Ishtar Gate of Babylon

• Neo-Babylonian

• Glazed mudbrick

The Apadana building at Persepolis

• Achaeminid

• Persian

• Stone