PREHISTORIC BODIES AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Woman/Venus from Willendorf, Austria, limestone, ca. 25,000 B.C.E., Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

Lascaux Cave paintings, France, ca. 15,000 -12,000 B.C.E.; bulls

Lascaux Cave paintings, France, ca. 15,000 -12,000 B.C.E.; wounded man

“Temple” from Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, ca. 9000 B.C.E.

Stone tower from Jericho, Palestine, ca. 8000 B.C.E.

Plastered skulls from Jericho, ca. 7000 B.C.E.

Plaster statues from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, ca. 7000 B.C.E.

Clay 'fertility goddess' from Çatal Hüyük, Turkey, ca. 6000 B.C.E.

Fragments of wall-paintings with animal ‘hunt’ from Çatal Hüyük, Turkey, ca. 6000 B.C.E.

White temple (to sky-god Anu) and Ziggurat at Uruk (modern Warka), Mesopotamia, ca. 3500-3000 B.C.E. Iraq

"Uruk (Warka) Vase," alabaster, ca. 3000 B.C.E., Iraq Museum, Baghdad

Gypsum votive statues from 'Abu Temple,' Tell Asmar, ca. 2700 B.C.E., Iraq Museum, Baghdad and Oriental Institute, Chicago

Royal Cemetery' of Ur, Iraq, ca. 2600 B.C.E.: "Standard of Ur" with scenes of war and peace: wooden box with shell inlays, lapis lazuli, and limestone, British Museum