Ancient Mediterranean

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White temple and its ziggurat / Sumerian / Mud brick

Palette of King Narmer / Predynastic Egypt / Greywacke

Statues of Votive figures from the Square temple at Eshnunna / Sumerian / 2700 BCE

Seated Scribe / Saqqara, Egypt / Painted limestone

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur / Sumerian / Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx / Egyptian / Cut limestone

King Menkaura and Queen / Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty / Greywacke

The Code of Hammurabi / Babylon / Basalt

Temple of Amun-re and Hypostyle Hall / New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties / Cut sandstone and mud brick

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut / New kingdom, 18th Dynasty / Sandstone, carved partially into a rock cliff, and red granite

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters / New Kingdom (Amarna) / Limestone

Tutankhamun’s Tomb, Innermost Coffin / New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty / 1323 BCE

Last Judgement of Hunefer, page from Book of the Dead / New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty / Painted papyrus scroll

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II / Neo-Assyrian / Alabaster

Athenian Agora / Archaic through Hellenistic Greek / Plan

Anavysos Kouros / Archaic Greek / 530 BCE

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis / Archaic Greek / 530 BCE

Sarcophagus of the Spouses / Etruscan / Terra cotta

Apadana of Darius and Xerxes / Persepolis, Iran / Limestone

Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo / Master sculptor Vulca / 510-500 BCE

Tomb of the Triclinium / Etruscan / Tufa and Fresco

Niobides Krater / Niobid Painter / Clay, red-figure technique, white highlights

Doryphoros / Polykleitos / Roman marble copy of bronze Greek original

Acropolis / Athens, Greece / Marble

Grave stele of Hegeso / Kallimachos / Marble and paint

Winged Victory of Samothrace / Hellenistic Greek / Marble

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon / Hellenistic Greek / Marble

House of the Vettii / Imperial Roman / Cut stone and fresco

Alexander Mosaic from House of the Faun / Republican Roman / Mosaic

Seated Boxer / Hellenistic Greek / Bronze

Head of a Roman Patrician / Republican Roman / Marble

Augustus of Prima Porta / Imperial Roman / Marble

Colosseum / Imperial Roman / Stone and Concrete

Forum of Trajan / Rome, Italy / Brick and concrete, marble

Pantheon / Imperial Roman / Concrete with stone facing

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus / 250 CE / Marble