AP Art History Unit 2

White Temple and its ziggurat

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq).

Sumerian

temple dedicated to the sky god, Anu

Statues of votive figures, from the Square

Temple at Eshnunna

Sumerian

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

eternal attendance and devotion to the deity on a donor's behalf

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

Sumerian

Wood inlaid with shell, lapiz lumeli, and red limestone

narrative imagery celebrates a military victory

The code of Hammurabi

Susian

Basalt

to legitimize the king's right to rule

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon the II

Neo-Assyrian

Alabaster

to safeguard the entrance to a royal complex

the audience of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran

Persian

once a year representatives show their loyalty

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic. Egypt

Greywacke

celebrates military victory

Seated Scribe

Old Kingdom, Egypt

Painted Limestone

for service in the afterlife

Great Pyramids

Giza, Egypt

Old Kingdom

Where the pharaoh was reborn and entered the sky

King Menkaura and queen

Old Kingdom

Greywacke

to reach afterlife

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Halls

Karnak, Egypt

New Kingdom

Religious center of the God Amun-Re

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Near Luxor, Egypt

New Kingdom

A mortuary temple, a place to worship her and leave offerings

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

New Kingdom, Amarna Period

Limestone

house altar

Tutankhamun’s Tomb innermost coffin

New kingdom

Gold with inlay of enamel and semi-precious stones

To preserve and protect the pharaoh in the afterlife

Last judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb

New Kingdom

Painted Papyrus scroll

to help the dead in the afterlife