global prehistory + ancient mediterranean

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Apollo 11 Stones

• Namibia

• 25,500 ~ 25,300 BCE

• charcoal on stone

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Great Hall of the Bulls

• Lascaux, France

• Paleolithic (Europe)

• 15.000 ~ 13.000 BCE

• rock painting

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Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine

• Tequixquiac, central Mexico

• 14.000 ~ 7.000 BCE

• bone

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Running horned woman

• Tassili n-Ajjer

• 6.000 ~ 4.000 BCE

• pigment on rock

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Beaker with ibex motifs

• Susa, Iran

• 4.200 ~ 3.500 BCE

• painted terra cotta

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Anthropomorphic stele

• ~Ha’il, Arabian Peninsula

• fourth millennium BCE

• sandstone

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Jade cong

• Liangzhu, China

• 3.300 ~ 2.200 BCE

• carved jade

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Stonehenge

• Wiltshire, UK

• Neolithic (Europe)

• 2.500 ~ 1.600 BCE

• sandstone

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The Ambum stone

• Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

• c. 1500 BCE

• greywacke

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Tlatilco female figurine

• central Mexico (site of Tlatilco)

• 1200 ~ 900 BCE

• ceramic

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Terra cotta fragment

• Lapita culture

• Reef Islands, Solomon Islands

• 1000 BCE

• terra cotta (incised)

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White Temple and its ziggurat

• Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq)

• Sumerian (culture)

• 3.500 ~ 3.000 BCE

• mud brick

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Statues of votive figures (from the Square Temple at Eshnunna in modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)

• Sumerian (culture)

• c. 2700 BCE

• gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

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Standard of Ur (from the Royal Tombs at Ur (in modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq))

• Sumerian (culture)

• c. 2600 ~ 2400 BCE

• wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

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Code of Hammurabi

• Babylon (modern Iran)

• Susian (culture)

• c. 1792 ~ 1750 BCE

• basalt

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Lamassu (from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq))

• neo-Assyrian

• c. 720 ~ 705 BCE

• alabaster

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Audience Hall (apādana) of Darius and Xerxes

• Persepolis, Iran

• Persian (culture)

• c. 520 ~ 465 BCE

• limestone

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Palette of King Narmer

• Predynastic Egypt

• c. 3000 ~ 2920 BCE

• greywacke

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Seated Scribe

• Saqqara, Egypt

• Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

• c. 2620 ~ 2500 BCE

• painted limestone

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Great Pyramids (for Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx

• Giza, Egypt

• Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

• c. 2550 ~ 2490 BCE

• cut limestone

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King Menkaura and queen

• Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

• c. 2490 ~ 2472 BCE

• greywacke

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Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

• Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

• New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties

• c. 1550 BCE (temple); c. 1250 BCE (hall)

• cut sandstone + mud brick

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Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

• near Luxor, Egypt

• New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

• c. 1473 ~ 1458 BCE

• sandstone (partially carved into a rock cliff) and red granite

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Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

• New Kingdom (Amarna period), 18th Dynasty

• c. 1353 - 1335 BCE

• limestone

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Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

• New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

• c. 1323 BCE

• gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

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Last Judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)

• New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty

• c. 1275 BCE

• painted papyrus scroll

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Athenian agora

• Archaic ~ Hellenistic Greek

• 600 BCE ~ 150 BCE

  • plan

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Anavysos Kouros

• Archaic Greek

• c. 530 BCE

• marble with remnants of paint

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Peplos Kore from the Acropolis

• Archaic Greek

• c. 530 BCE

• marble, painted details

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Niobides Krater

• Niobid Painter (anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece)

• c. 460 ~ 450 BCE

• clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)

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Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

• Severe Style / Early Classical Greek

• orig. 450 ~ 440 BCE

• Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze)

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Parthenon (from the Athenian Acropolis)

• Iktinos and Kallikrates

• High Classical Greek

• c. 447 ~ 432 B.C.E.

• marble

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Plaque of the Ergastines

• High Classical Greek

• c. 445–438 B.C.E.

• marble

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Temple of Athena Nike

• High Classical Greek

• c. 421 ~ 405 BCE

• marble

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Victory adjusting her sandal

• High Classical Greek

• c. 410 BCE

  • marble

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Grave stele of Hegeso

• attributed to Kallimachos

• c. 410 BCE

• marble and paint

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

• Hellenistic Greek

• c. 190 BCE

• marble

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Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

• Asia Minor (present-day Turkey)

• Hellenistic Greek

• c. 175 BCE

• marble (architecture and sculpture)

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Seated boxer

• Hellenistic Greek

• c. 100 BCE

• bronze

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses

• Etruscan

• c. 520 BCE

• terra cotta

Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo

• master sculptor Vulca

• c. 510 ~ 500 BCE

• original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock); terra cotta sculpture