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ACHAEMENJD PERSION ART - The Royal Audience Hall ( the apadana), Persepolis, Persia ( modern Iran ) ca 500 BC

ACHAEMENID PERSIAN ART - Winged Lion Rhyton - 5th-3rd c BC

HELLENISTIC PERIOD - Battle of Issus - late 2nd c., early 1st c BC

NABATEAN/HIGH IMPERIAL PERIOD ROMAN - Al-khazneh (“Treasury”), Petra, Jordan - 2nd c

SASANIAN

ERSIAN - Triumph of Shakur I Over Valerian, Naqsj-I-Rustam, Iran ca 260

SASANIAN PERSIAN - Palace Facade, Ctesiphon, Iraq - 4th-6th c

SCYTHIAN - Stag Ornament - ca. 7th-6th c BC

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ISLAMIC ART - Ka’ba, Masjid Al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia - ca 681-696

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ISLAMIC ART - Reconstructed model and plan of the House of the Prophet, Medina, Saudi Arabia - 624

ISLAMIC ART (UMAYYAD) - Interior of the Dome of the Rock, Detail of mosaics, Jerusalem, Israel - 687 - 692

ISLAMIC ART ( UMAYYAD) - Courtyard of the Great Mosque, detail of the mosaics, Damascus, Syria - 634-715

ISLAMIC ART (UMAYYAD) - Relief from the facade of the Palace at Mshatta, Jordan - ca 743

ISLAMOC ART (UMAYYAD) - Prayer hall, Great Mosque, Córdoba, Spain - begun 784-86

ISLAMIC ART (NASRID) - Court of Lions, Palace of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, Spain - ca 1380

ISLMIC ART (NASRID) - Muqarnas dome, Hall of the Abencerrajes, Alhambra, Granada, Spain ca - 1354-91

ISLAMIC ART/SULAYMAN - Ewer in the form of a bird - 796

ISLAMIC ART (ABBASID) - Minaret and Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq - 847-861

ISLAMIC ART (ABBASID) – Folio from a Qur’an– 9th, early 10th c.

ISLAMIC ART (ABBASID) – Abu Zayd and Al-Harith questioning Villagers, from al-Hariri’s Maqamat[the Meetings]  – 1237.

ISLAMIC ART (ABBASID-SALJUQ) – Great Congregational Mosque [Masjid-i-Jamé], Isfahan, Iran – 7th-17th c.

ISLAMIC ART (UMAYYAD) – The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel – 687-692.