Identifiers for the Ancient Mediterranean pieces for the 2024 AP Art History exam
White temple and its Ziggurat
Sumerian
Iraq
3500-3000 BCE
Mud brick
Statues of Votive Figures
Sumerian
Iraq
2700 BCE
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
Sumerian
Iraq
2600-2400 BCE
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
The Code Stele of Hammurabi
Susian
Babylon (modern Iran)
1792-1750 BCE
Basalt
Lamassu
Neo-Assyrian
Khorsabad, Iraq
720-705 BCE
Alabaster
Palette of King Narmer
Predynastic Egypt
Egypt
3000-2920 BCE
Greywacke
Seated Scribe
Egyptian Old Kingdom
Saqqara, Egypt
2620-2500 BCE
Painted limestone
Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx
Egyptian Old Kingdom
Giza, Egypt
2550-2490 BCE
Cut limestone
King Menkaure and Queen
Egyptian Old Kingdom
Egypt
2490-2472 BCE
Greywacke
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
Egyptian New Kingdom
Karnak, Egypt
Temple: 1550 BCE Hall: 1250 BCE
Cut sandstone and mud brick
Mortuary Temple of Hatsepshut
Egyptian New Kingdom
Near Luxor, Egypt
1473-1458 BCE
Sandstone, carved into cliff, and red granite
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
Egyptian New Kingdom
Amarna, Egypt
1353-1335 BCE
Limestone
Tutankhamun’s Tomb, innermost coffin
Egyptian New Kingdom
Egypt
1323 BCE
Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
Last Judgement of Hunefer (Book of the Dead)
Egyptian New Kingdom
Egypt
1275 BCE
Painted papyrus
Athenian Agora
Archaic through Hellenistic Greek
Greece
600 BCE-150 CE
Marble
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greek
Greece
530 BCE
Marble
Peplos Kore
Archaic Greek
Greece
530 BCE
Marble, painted details
Niobides Krater
Niobi Painter
Greece
460-450 BCE
Clay, red figure technique
Doryphorous (Spear-Bearer)
Polykleitos
Greece
450-440 BCE
Roman copy: marble Greek original: bronze
Acropolis
Iktinos and Kallikrates
Athens, Greece
447-410 BCE
Marble
Grave Stele of Hegeso
Attributed to Kallimachos
Greece
410 BCE
Marble and paint
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Hellenistic Greek
Greece
190 BCE
Marble
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
Hellenistic Greek
Present-day Turkey
175 BCE
Marble
Alexander Mosaic
Republican Roman
Pompeii, Italy
100 BCE
Mosaic
Seated Boxer
Hellenistic Greek
Greece
100 BCE
Bronze
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Cerveteri, Italy
Etruscan
520 BCE
Terracotta
Temple of Minerva and Apollo Veii
Vulca
Near Rome, Italy
510-500 BCE
Temple: wood, mud brick, or tufa Sculpture: terracotta
Tomb of the Triclinium
Etruscan
Tarquinia, Italy
480-470 BCE
Tufa and paint
House of the Vettii
Imperial Roman
Pompeii, Italy
2nd century BCE
Cut sandstone and fresco
Head of a Roman Patrician
Republican Roman
Rome
75-50 BCE
Marble
Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman
Rome
1st century CE
Marble
Colosseum
Imperial Roman
Rome, Italy
70-80 CE
Stone and concrete
Forum and Markets of Trajan
Apollodorus of Damascus
Rome, Italy
106-112 CE
Architecture: brick and concrete Column: marble
Pantheon
Imperial Roman
Rome
118-125 CE
Concrete with stone facing
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Late Imperial Roman
Rome
250 CE
Marble