Unit 5: Ancient Mediterranean

Palette of King Narmer

Egypt, 3000 BCE, Greywacke

White Temple and its ziggurat

Iraq, 3000 BCE, Mud brick

Statues of votive figures

Iraq, 2700 BCE, Gypsum, shell, black limestone

Seated scribe

Egypt, 2500 BCE, Painted Limestone

Great Pyramids

Egypt, 2500 BCE, Cut limestone

Great Sphinx

Egypt, 2500 BCE, Sandstone

Standard of Ur

Iraq, 2500 BCE, Wood, shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone

King Menkaure and Queen

Egypt, 2480 BCE, Greywacke

The Code of Hammurabi

Iran, 1780 BCE, Basalt

Temple of Amun-Re

Egypt, 1550 BCE, Cut sandstone, mud brick

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Egypt, 1460 BCE, Sandstone, carved into rock cliff, red granite

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

Egypt, 1350 BCE, Limestone

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

Egypt, 1323 BCE, Gold, semiprecious stones

Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer

Egypt, 1275 BCE, Painted papyrus scroll

Lamassu

Iraq, 720 BCE, Alabaster

Anavysos Kouros

Archaic Greek, 530 BCE, Marble, paint

Peplos Kore

Archaic Greek, 530 BCE, Marble, painted details

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

Italy, 520 BCE, Terra cotta

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes

Iran, 500 BCE, Limestone

Temple of Minerva

Italy, 500 BCE, wood, tufa

Statue of Apollo

Master sculptor Vulca, 500 BCE, Terra cotta

Tomb of the Triclinium

Italy, 480 BCE, Tufa, fresco

Doryphorus

Polykleitos, 450 BCE, Roman marble, Greek bronze

Niobides Krater

Niobid painter, 450 BCE, Clay, red-figure technique

Acropolis

Greece, Iktinos and Kallikrates, 420 BCE, Marble

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Attributed to Kallimachos, 410 BCE, Marble, paint

House of Vettii

Imperial Rome, 200 BCE, rebuilt 70, cut stone, fresco

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Hellenistic Greek, 190 BCE, Marble

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

Turkey, 175 BCE, Marble

Alexander Mosaic

Italy, 100 BCE, mosaic

Seated Boxer

Hellenistic Greek, 100 BCE, bronze

Head of a Roman Patrician

Republic Rome, 50 BCE, Marble

Colosseum

Imperial Rome, 70, stone, concrete

Athenian Agora

Archaic through Hellenistic Greek, 100, plan

Augustus of Prima Porta

Imperial Rome, 100, marble

Forum of Trajan

Italy, 110, completed 113, brick, concrete, marble

Pantheon

Imperial Rome, 120, concrete, stone facing

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Imperial Rome, 250, Marble