ancient mediterranean - unit 2

white temple and ziggurat

mud brick, Uruk, Iraq, 3,500-3000

statues of votive figures

black limestone, square temple at eshanna, tell asmar, iraq, 2,700

standard of ur

wood, shell, limestone, lapis lazuli, royal temples at ur, tell el-muqayyar, iraq

the code of hammerabi

basalt, babylon/iran, 1,792-1,750

lamassu

alabaster, sargon ll, dur sharrukin, khorsabad, iraq, 720-705

apanda of darius and xerxes

limestone, persepolis, iran, 520-465

palette of king narmer

greywacke, predynastic egypt, 3,000-2920

seated scribe

limestone, saqqara, egypt, 2,650-2,500

king menkaure and queen

greywacke, old kingdom, 4th dynasty, 2,490-2,472

the great pyramids (menkaure, khafre, khufu), the great sphinx

limestone, giza, egypt, 2,550-2,490

mortuary temple of hatshepsut

sandstone, lakor, egypt, 1,473-1,458

temple of amun-re and hypostyle hall

sandstone, mudbrick, karnak, egypt, 1,550-1,250

akhenaton, nefertiti, and three daughters

limestone, amarna, egypt, 1,353-1,355

tutankhamun’s tomb

gold, enamel, precious stones, new kingdom, 18th dynasty

last judgement of hunefer

painted papryus scroll, new kingdom, 19th dynasty, 1,275

anavyos kouros

marble with paint, archaic greece, 530

peplos kore

marble with paint, acropolis, greece, 530

niobid krater

clay (red figure technique with white highlights), classical greece, 460-450

doryphoros

marble, pompei, italy, 450-440

athenian agora

athens, greece, 600-450

acropolis (parthenian), plaque of the ergastines (frieze), nike adjusting her sandle

marble, athen, greece, by Iktinos and Kallikrates, 447-424

parthenon sculptures

marble, athens, greece, by Phidias, 438-432

grave stele of hegeso

marble, athens, greece, by Kallimachos, 410

winged victory of samothrace

marble, hellenistic greece, 190

seated boxer

bronze, hellenistic greece, 100

great altar of zeus and athena

marble, asia minor, turkey, by Phyromachos, 175

alexander mosaic

mosaic tesserae, stone and glass, house of faun, pompeii, italy, based on Philoxenos, 100

sarcophagus of the spouses

terra cotta, caere, cerveteri, italy, 520

temple of minerva

mud brick, tufa, wood, veii, italy, 510-500

tomb of the triclinium

tufa and fresco, tarquinia, italy, 480-470

head of a roman patrician

marble, republican roman, 75-50

augustus of prima porta

marble, prima porta, italy, 20

the colusseum (flavian amphitheater)

stone and concrete, rome, italy, 72-80

pantheon

concrete and stone, rome, italy, 118-125

forum of trajan

brick and concrete, rome, italy, by Apollodorus of Damascus, 106-112

house of vetii

stone and fresco, pompeii, italy, 67-79

ludovisi battle sarcophagus

marble, rome, italy, 250