AP Art History Ch. 3 Images

Beaker with decoration of animals

Susa, Iran, example of animal abstraction, terracotta

Temple of Anu / White Temple

Uruk, elevated earthen platform, temple, closer to gods, house design

Eanna Complex

Uruk, temples, storerooms, administrative buildings, built over many centuries, cuneiform writing tablets

Cone mosaics

Eanna complex, Peg-shaped units, covered mudbrick walls , geometric patterns resembling mats and textiles

Uruk vase

Registers, pictorial narrative, ritual offerings, low relief

Lion-Hunt stele

Preist king (appears twice), first documentation of lion hunting, power, early public monument, oldest Mesopotamian narrative

Cylinder Seal

Signatures, administration, envelope —> trade, created iconography

Votive Figures

Abu temple, Wide eyes, pointed toward deity, size=hierarchy, devotion to gods

Royal standard of Ur

Battle side VS Feast side, registers, hierarchy

The Great lyre with a bearded bull’s head

Bull’s head, music (stringed insturment), funerary context, Animals as humans

Stele of Eannatum

Lagash vs. Umma: mythological and historical perspectives, legal contract between lagash and umma

Head of an Akkadian ruler

Powerful ruler; combines naturalism and abstraction; earliest example of lost-wax casting

Stele of Naram-Sin

Military victory, unified pictorial narrative (no registers), rulers authority (bigger)

Disk of Enheduanna

First named artist, ceremony, two attendants before a ziggurat

Seated statue of Gudea

Ensi (ruler of the plowfield in lagash), dorite (rock) —> control of Magan, in honor of Ningishzida, cuneiform on clothes

Ziggurat of Nanna

3rd Dynasty of Ur, Ur Namma primary funder (name on very brick), orthogonal plan, religious ritual site, held together with bitumen