apah unit 2A

White Temple and its ziggurat. sumerian. Mud brick.

Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq). Sumerian. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

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

The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (modern Iran). Susian. Basalt

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq).Neo-Assyrian. alabaster. 

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes. Persian. Limestone.

Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. Greywacke.

Seated scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Painted limestone.

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Cut limestone.

King Menkaura and queen. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. Greywacke.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. Cut sandstone and mud brick.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Near Luxor, Egypt.Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite.

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. Limestone.

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Gold with inlay of enamel and semi precious stones.

Last judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. Painted papyrus scroll.