AP Art History: Unit 2 Mesopotamia ID

Identification

Title: The Anu Ziggurat, (on top of which) The White Temple

Artist: Unknown Sumerian(s)

Culture of Origin: Uruk, Sumer, Mesopotamia

Style: Sumerian monumental/religious architecture

Date: 3500 -3000BCE (Late Uruk/Uruk III)

Materials: Mud brick, bitumen, whitewash

Identification

Title: Statue of Votive Figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna

Artist: Eshnunna, Sumer, Mesopotamia

Culture of Origin: Eshnunna

Style: Sumerian, Early Dynastic

Date: 2700BCE (Early Dynastic Period II)

Materials: Gypsum, inlaid with shell and black limestone, bitumen

Identification

Title: Standard of Ur, from the Royal Tombs @ Ur

Artist: Sumerian, Ur, Royal Tombs @ Ur

Culture of Origin: Sumerian, Ur, Royal Tombs @ Ur

Style: Sumerian, Early Dynastic

Date: 2600-2400BCE (Early Dynastic Period)

Materials: Wood, inlaid shell, lapis lazuli, bitumen, red limestone

Identification

Title: The Code of Hammurabi

Artist: Unkown Babylonian

Culture of Origin: Susa, Babylonia

Style: Babylonian, logo-syllabic Cuneiform

Date: 1792-1750BCE

Materials: Basalt

Identification

Title: Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II

Artist: Unknown Neo-Assyrian

Culture of Origin: Neo-Assyrian

Style: Neo-Assyrian, logo-syllabic Cuneiform

Date: 720-705BCE

Materials: Gypsum, aka Alabaster (monolithic)

Identification

Title: Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius and Xerxes

Artist: unknown, Achaemenid (siting & design elements Darius & Xerxes)

Culture of Origin: Achaemenid Empire, Persepolis (Parsa), Persia

Style: Achaemenid Court Style of monumental architecture

Date: 520-465BCE

Materials: Limestone, brick