AP Art History - Ancient Mediterranean (Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia)

White Temple and its ziggurat

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 3500-3000 B.C.E. Mud brick.

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000-2920 B.C.E. Greywacke.

Statues of votive figures

• from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2700 B.C.E. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

Seated scribe

Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620-2500 B.C.E. Painted limestone.

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

Sumerian. c. 2600-2400 B.C.E. Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone.

Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx

Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2550-2490 B.C.E. Cut limestone.

King Menkaura and queen

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2490-2472 B.C.E. Greywacke.

The Code of Hammurabi

Babylon (modern Iran). Susian. c. 1792-1750 B.C.E. Basalt.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple: c. 1550 B.C.E.; hall: c. 1250 B.C.E. Cut sandstone and mud brick.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1473-1458 B.C.E. Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. c. 1353-1335 B.C.E. Limestone.

Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 B.C.E. Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.

Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1275 B.C.E. Painted papyrus scroll.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin

Neo-Assyrian. c. 720-705 B.C.E. Alabaster.

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran. Persian. c. 520–465 B.C.E. Limestone.