Ancient Mediterranean

White Temple and its Ziggurat

Date: 3500 BCE

Location: Iraq (Sumerian empire)

Material: plaster, mudbrick

Content: From Ancient Sumerian culture / Dedicated to the god Anu.

Palette of King Narmer

Date: 3000 BCE

Location: Edgypt (Edgyptian empire)

Material: greywacke / relief sculpture

Content: Used as a makeup palette for the king / Represents the kings tie to the gods (Horus)/ represents the unification of upper and lower edgypt

Statues of votive figures

Date: 2900 BCE

Location: Iraq (Sumerian empire)

Material: limestone/gypsum

Content: Found in temples, used as a religious offering / people commissioned to have their personalized votive figures represents their “spirit” at the temples.

Standard of Ur

Date: 2600 BCE

Location: Iraq (Sumerian empire)

Material: Wood inlaid with limestone and jems mosaic

Content: One side depicts war, one side depicts peace/uses hierarchy of scale

Code of Hammurabi

Date: 1750 BCE

Location: Iraq (Babylonian Empire)

Material: Basalt stele relief sculpture

Content: Written in Cuneiform, first law code ever written / depicts Hammurabi receiving wisdom and laws by god

Lamasu

Date: 720 BCE

Location: Assyria

Material: Alabaster sculpture

Content: Mythical creatures with a human head and crownrepresenting divinity/ served as guards at the capital of Assyria

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerces

Date: 500 BCE

Location: Iran (Persian Empire)

Material: Limestone Pillars

Content: meant to host festivals and receptions/ showed power of the rulers