Unit 2: Ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt Artworks

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Name: White Temple and its Ziggurat

Culture: Sumerian

Date: 3500 - 3000 BCE

Medium: Mud Brick

Location: Uruk, Iraq

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Name: Votive Figures

Culture: Sumerian

Date: 2700 BCE

Medium: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Location: Tell Asmar, Iraq

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Name: Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

Culture: Sumerian

Date: 2600-2400 BCE

Medium: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Location: Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq

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Name: The Code of Hammurabi

Culture: Babylonian (Susian)

Date: 1792 - 1750 BCE

Medium: Basalt

Location: Babylon (Susa, Iran)

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Name: Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II

Culture: Neo-Assyrian

Date: 720 - 705 BCE

Medium: Alabaster

Origin: Dur-Sharrukin, Iraq

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Name: Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Culture: Persian

Date: 520 - 465 BCE

Medium: Limestone

Location: Persepolis, Iran

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Name: Palette of King Narmer

Culture: Predynastic Egypt

Date: 3000 - 2920 BCE

Medium: Greywacke

Location: n/a

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Name: Seated Scribe

Culture: Egyptian Old Kingdom

Date: 2620 - 2500 BCE

Medium: Painted Limestone

Location: Saqqara, Egypt

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Name: Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx

Culture: Egyptian Old Kingdom

Date: 2550 - 2490 BCE

Medium: Cut Limestone

Location: Giza, Egypt

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Name: King Menkaura and Queen

Culture: Egyptian Old Kingdom

Date: 2490 - 2472 BCE

Medium: Greywacke

Location: n/a

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Name: Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Culture: Egyptian New Kingdom

Date: 1550 BCE (Temple) | 1250 BCE (Hall)

Medium: Cut Sandstone and Mud Brick

Location: Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

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Name: Mortuary Temple of Hatsheput

Culture: Egyptian New Kingdom

Date: 1473 - 1458 BCE

Medium: Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite

Location: Near Luxor, Egypt

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Name: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

Culture: Egyptian New Kingdom (Amarna)

Date: 1353 - 1335 BCE

Medium: Limestone

Location: n/a

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Name: Tutankhamun’s Tomb (innermost tomb)

Culture: Egyptian New Kingdom

Date: 1323 BCE

Medium: Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

Location: n/a

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Name: Last Judgement of Hunefer

Culture: Egyptian New Kingdom 

Date: 1275 BCE

Medium: Painted Papyrus Scroll

Location: Book of the Dead