AP Art History Units 1-2

Apollo 11 Stones

Paleolithic period

c. 25,000 B.C.E.

Charcoal on stone

Namibia

Great hall of Bulls

Paleolithic Europe

c. 15000-13000 BCE

Pigment on Rock

Lascaux, France

Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine 

Paleolithic

Tequixquiac, Central Mexico

14,000-7000 B.C.E.

Bone

Running horned woman

Neolithic 

6000-4000 B.C.E.

Pigment on rock 

Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria

Beaker with ibex motifs

Neolithic Period

Susa, Iran

4200-3500 B.C.E.

Painted terra cotta

Stonehenge

Neolithic Europe

c. 2500-1600 B.C.E.

Sandstone

Wiltshire, UK

White Temple and its ziggurat

Sumerian

c. 3500-3000 B.C.E.

Mud brick

Uruk 

(modern Warka, Iraq)

Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna

Sumerian 

c. 2700 B.C.E.

Modern Tell Asmar, Iraq

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs of Ur

Sumerian

c. 2600-2400 BCE

Modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq

Wood inlaid with 

shell, lapis lazuli, 

and red limestone

Code of Hammurabi

Babylon (modern Iran)

Susian

c. 1792-1750 B.C.E.

Basalt

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)

Neo-Assyrian

c. 720-705 B.C.E. 

Alabaster

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes 

Persian

c. 520-465 B.C.E.

Limestone

Persepolis, Iran

Palette of King Narmer 

Predynastic Egypt

c. 3000-2920 B.C.E.

Greywacke

King Menkaura and queen

Old Kingdom Egypt

c. 2490-2472 B.C.E.

Greywacke

Seated Scribe

Old Kingdom Egypt

c. 2620-2500 B.C.E

Saqqara, Egypt

Painted limestone

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu)

and Great Sphinx

Old Kingdom Egypt

c. 2550-2490 B.C.E

Limestone

Giza, Egypt

 Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

New Kingdom Egypt

c. 1473-1458 B.C.E.

Sandstone carved into

rock cliff 

near Luxor, Egypt

Kneeling statue of Hatshepsut 

New Kingdom Egypt

c. 1473-1458 B.C.E.

Red granite

near Luxor, Egypt

Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall

New Kingdom Egypt

Temple: c. 1550 B.C.E.; Hall 

c. 1250 B.C.E.

Cut sandstone and mud brick

Karnak (near Luxor), Egypt

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

New Kingdom Egypt/ Amarna Period

c. 1353-1335 B.C.E.

Limestone

Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin

New Kingdom Egypt

c. 1323 B.C.E.

Gold with inlay of enamel and semi-precious stones

Last Judgment of Hunefer (page from the Book of the Dead)

New Kingdom Egypt

c. 1275 B.C.E.

Painted papyrus scroll