CH 3 n 5 Ancient Mesopotamia

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Temple of Anu (White Temple) at Uruk

Iraq

3300 BCE (Early Sumerian / Uruk Period)

Royal Standard of Ur,

Iraq

2550-2400 BCE (Sumerian)

Early Dynasitc Period

Stele of Naram-sin

Susa, Iran

2254-2218 BCE (akkadian period)

limestone

Seated Statue of Gudea, dedicated to ningishzida

Iraq

Second dynasty of lagash 2120 BCE

Diorite

Law stele of Hammurabi

Babylon (excavated at Iran)

1760 BCE (old Babylonian period)

Black Basalt

Colossus winged lion (Lamassu) guarded a portal in the NW palace of Ashurasirpal the 2nd at Kalhu

Iraq

879 BCE (Neo Ayssiran)

Gypsum

Lion Hunt Orthostat relief of King Ashurbanipal

Iraq

645-635 BCE (Neo assyrian)

Gypsum

Ishtar Gate of Babylon

Iraq

605-562 BCE (Neo-Babylonia)

The Apadana Building at Persepolis

Iran

521-465 BCE Achaemenid Empire