AHP1300 Midterms Artwork

title/name: Panel of the Horses

Culture: Aurignacian culture

medium/material: charcoal on limestone

Date: c. 32,000-30,000 B.C.

Significance: marks the entrance to the skull chamber, likely served spiritual purposes.

title/name:Woman from Willendorf

Culture:Gravettian

medium/material: limestone

Date:c. 24,000 B.C.

Significance: symbol of fertility and motherhood

title/name:Stonehenge

Culture:Neolithic

medium/material:sandstone

Date: c. 2900-1500 B.C.

Significance: neolithic ceremonial site

title/name: votive statues

Culture: Sumerian

medium/material: limestone, alabaster, and gypsum

Date:c. 2900-2600 B.C.,

Significance:ensures continuous prayer and worship to the deity on behalf of the donor

title/name:Stele of Naram-Sin

Culture:Akkadian Empire

medium/material: limestone

Date:c. 2254-2218 B.C.

Significance: commemorates an important victory of Naram-Sin, who was the first to declare himself a god of the Akkadin Empire

title/name: Palette of Narmer

Culture: ancient egypt

medium/material:green-grey siltstone

Date:c. 2950 B.C.

Significance:a ritual item used for grinding and preparing cosmetics

title/name: seated scribe

Culture: ancient egypt 5th dynasty

medium/material: painted limestone

Date:c. 2450-2325 BC

Significance:highly respected as one of the few who could read and write

title/name:Bull-leaping fresco

Culture:Minoan 

medium/material:plaster

Date:c. 1550-1450 B.C.

Significance: symbolizes the Minoans connection to the bull as a representation of strength

title/name:New York Kouros

Culture:ancient greece

medium/material:marble

Date:600 BC

Significance:grave marker for a young aristocrat