AP Art History - Ancient Mediterranean

White Temple and its Ziggurat. Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 3500-3000 BCE Mud brick.

Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000 - 2920 BCE. Greywacke.

Statue of Votive Figures, from the Square Temple at Eshunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2700 BCE. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

Seated Scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620-2500 BCE. Painted limestone

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2600-2400 BCE. Wood inlay with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone.

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Kafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2550-2490 BCE. Cut limestone.

King Menakaura and queen. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2490-2472 BCE. Greywacke.

The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (modern Iran). Susan. c. 1792-1750 BCE. Basalt.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. c. 1550 BCE; hall: c. 1250 BCE. Cut sandstone and mud brick.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1473-1458 BCE. Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. c. 1353-1335 BCE. Limestone.

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 BCE. Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1275 BCE. Painted papyrus scroll.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Our Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq). Neo-Assyrian. c. 720-705 BCE. Alabaster.

Athenian agora. Archaic through Hellenistic Greek. 600 BCE-150 CE. Plan.

Analysis Kouros. Archaic Greek. c. 530 BCE. Marble with remnants of paint.

Peplos kore form the Acropolis. Archaic Greek. c. 530 BCE. Marble, painted details.

Sarcophagus of the Spouses. Etruscan. c. 520 BCE Terra cotta.

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes. Persepolis, Iran. Persian. c. 520-465 BCE. Limestone.

Temple of Minerva (Veil, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo. Master sculptor Vulca. c. 510-500 BCE. Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock); terra cotta sculpture.

Tomb of the Trinclinium. Tarquinia, Italy. Etruscan. c. 480-47- BCe. Tufa and fresco.

Niobides Krater. Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter. c. 460 - 450 BCE. Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights).

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Polykleitos. Original 450-440 BCE. Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze).

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447 -424 BCE. Marble.

Grave stele of Hegeso. Attributed to Kallimachos. c. 410 BCE. Marble and paint.

Winged Victory of Samothrace. Hellenistic Greek. c. 190 BCE. Marble.

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellensitic Greek. c. 175 BCE. Marble (architecture and sculpture).

House of the Vetti. Pompeii, Italy. Imperial Roman. c. second century BCE; rebuilt c. 69-72 CE. Cut stone and fresco.

Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii. Republican Roman. c. 100 BCE. Mosaic.

Seated boxer. Hellenistic Greek. c. 100 BCE. Bronze

Head of a Roman patrician. Republican Roman. c. 75-50 BCE. Marble.

Augustus of Prima Porta. Imperial Roman. Early first century CE. Marble.

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater). Rome, Italy. Imperial Roman. 70-80 CE. Stone and concrete.

Forum of Trajan. Rome, Italy. Apollodorus of Damascus. Forum and markets: 106-112 CE; column completed 113 CE. Brick and concrete (architecture); marble (column).

Pantheon. Imperial Roman. 118-135 Ce. Concrete with stone facing.

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus. Late Imperial Roman. c. 250 CE. Marble.