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The Great Hall of the Bulls
Date/Style: Paleolithic, 15000 - 13000 BCE
Materials/Tech: Painterly, pigment, twisted perspective
Location: Laucaux, France
Function: Ritual
Stonehenge
Date/Style: Neolithic, 2500 - 1600 BCE
Materials/Tech: Sandstone, post and lintel, megalith
Location: Wiltshire, England
Function: Not known
White Temple and Ziggurat
Date/Style: Sumerian, 3500 - 3000 BCE
Materials/Tech: Mudbrick, white gypsum
Location: Uruk (modern day Iraq)
Function: Dedicated to sky god Anu
Palette of King Narmer
Date/Style: Predynastic/Old Kingdom Egypt, 3000 - 2920 BCE
Materials/Tech: Greywake
Location: Egypt
Function: Mix and grind cosmetics, grave, or ritual
Votive Figures
Date/Style: Sumerian, 2900 - 26/2700 BCE
Materials/Tech: Gypsum and lined with black limestones
Location: Eshunna (modern day Tellesmar, Iraq)
Function: Stand before gods worshipping in place of real humans
Seated Scribe
Date/Style: Old Kingdom, 2620 - 2500 BCE
Materials/Tech: Painted limestone
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
Function: Meant for a tomb
Standard of Ur
Date/Style: Sumerian, 2600 - 2400 BCE
Materials/Tech: Relief, inlaid shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone, profile
Location: Ur (modern day Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq)
Function: Box to carry musical instruments or war currency
Great Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx
Date/Style: Old Kingdom, 2550 - 2490 BCE
Materials/Tech: Cut limestone
Location: Giza, Egypt
Function: Burial for royalty and elite
King Menkaura and Queen
Date/Style: Old Kingdom, 2490 - 2472 BCE
Materials/Tech: Greywake
Location: Giza, Egypt
Function: Placed in niche possibly, meant to ensure rebirth of king in afterlife
The Code of Hammurabi
Date/Style: Babylonia, 1792 - 1750 BCE
Materials/Tech: Basalt, relief
Location: Babylon (Iran)
Function: Declared laws of Sumer, legitimized Hammurabis rule
Temple of Hatshepsut
Date/Style: New Kingdom, 1473 - 1458 BCE
Materials/Tech: Sandstone
Location: Luxor, Egypt
Function: Funeral complex and temple for pharaoh Hatshepsut
Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and 3 daughters
Date/Style: New Kingdom, 1353 - 1335 BCE
Materials/Tech: Limestone
Location: Armana, Egypt
Function: Found in niche in private home to establish new religion
Tutankhamen's Tomb
Date/Style: New Kingdom, 1323 BCE
Materials/Tech: Gold with inlay of enamel and stones
Location: Luxor, Egypt
Function: Tomb for King Tut
Last Judgement of Hunefer
Date/Style: New Kingdom, 1275 BCE
Materials/Tech: Painted papyrus
Location: Memphis, Egypt
Function: Instructions to guide Hunefer to the afterlife
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
Date/Style: New Kingdom, Temple was 1550 BCE, hall was 1250 BCE
Materials/Tech: Cut sandstone and mudbrick
Location: Karnak, Egypt
Function: Largest religious center in the world
Lamassu
Date/Style: Assyrian, 1000 - 500 BCE
Materials/Tech: Alabaster, monolith, relief
Location: Dur Sharrukin
Function: Placed at entrance at cities to ward off evil spirits
Athenian Agora
Date/Style: Greek Archaic, 600 - 150 BCE
Materials/Tech: Plan
Location: Athens, Greece
Function: Government and admin place
Anavysos Kouros
Date/Style: Archaic Greek, 530 BCE
Materials/Tech: Parian marble
Location: Athens, Greece
Function: Grave marker
Peplos Kore
Date/Style: Archaic Greek, 480 BCE
Materials/Tech: Marble, painted statue
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Function:Offering to god
Sarcophages of the Spouses
Date/Style: Etruscan, 520 BCE
Materials/Tech: Terracotta, then burnished
Location: Cerveteri, Italy
Function: Meant to held ashes for decreased
Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
Date/Style: Persian, 250 - 465 BCE
Materials/Tech: Limestone, hypostyle, portico
Location: Persepolis, Iran
Function: Admin space, and sacred site
Temple of Minerva + Sculpture of Apollo
Date/Style: Etruscan, 510 - 500 BCE
Materials/Tech: Mudbrick, tufa, terracotta sculpture
Location: Veii, Italy
Function: Ritual space
Tomb of Triclinium
Date/Style: Etruscan, 480 - 470 BCE
Materials/Tech: Tufa, fresco
Location: Tarquinia, Italy
Function: Tomb
Niobides Krater
Date/Style: Greek Classical, 460 - 450 BCE
Materials/Tech: Clay, wheel throwing
Location: Athens, Greece
Function: Placed in the center of the room and used to put liquids in
Doryphoros
Date/Style: Greek Classical, original 450 - 440 BCE, Romany copy 79 BCE
Materials/Tech: Marble, carving, contraposto
Location: -
Function: Representation of the ideal physical Greek appearances
Acropolis
Date/Style: Classical Greek, 447 - 410 BCE
Materials/Tech: Marble
Location: Athens, Greece
Function: Multiple functions
Grave stele of Hegeso
Date/Style: Classical Greek, 410 BCE
Materials/Tech: Marbles, carving, polychromy
Location: Greece
Function: Grave marker
Treasury and Great Temple
Date/Style: Nabataean, 400 - 100 CE
Materials/Tech: Cut rock
Location: Petra, Jordan
Function: Temple - civic complex, Treasury - mausoleum/tomb
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Date/Style: Hellenistic Greek, 190 BCE
Materials/Tech: Marble
Location: Samothrace
Function: Announcing military victory
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena
Date/Style: Hellenistic Greek, 181 - 159 BCE
Materials/Tech: Marble
Location: Pergamon
Function: Symbol of victory