TXMI 4350 Test 1 Slides

A: springer

B: voussoir

C: keystone

D: extrados

E: intrados

F: spring point

Ishtar Gate

Babylon, Iraq (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

c. 570 BCE

Ishtar Gate Dragon Detail

reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin

569 BCE

Standard of Ur

British Museum

Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BCE

Ziggurat of Ur

southern Iraq

originally built by Ur-Nammu

2100 BCE

Lamassu

Assyria

720 BCE

Palace of Knossos

Crete

1900-1700 BCE

Lion Gate

Mycenae

excavated by Schliemann

1400 BCE

King Djoser's Step Pyramid

Saqqara, Egypt

2750 BCE

A

Menkaure Mycerinus

Giza, Egypt

2532-2510 BCE

261 ft

B

Khafre (Chevron)

Giza, Egypt

2555-2532 BCE

448 ft

C

Khufu (Cheops)

Giza, Egypt

2560 BCE

481 ft

Temple of Horus

Edfu, Egypt

237-57 BCE

A: flat roof

B: cavetto

C: lintel

D: pylon

Queen Nefertiti

Neues Museum in Berlin

1350 BCE

painted limestone, 20”

Tutankhamen’s Throne

Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza

1334-1325 BCE

Parthenon

Athens, Greece

448-432 BCE

Iktinos and Kallikrates

Varvakeion Athena

marble copy of Phidias's cult statue of Athena from the Parthenon

200–250 AD

Erechtheion

Acropolis, Athens

421-406 BCE

Ionic temple

caryatid

A: Doric

B: Ionic

C: Corinthian

Nike of Samothrace

Louvre, Paris

created 220-190 BCE, discovered 1863

8 ft high marble figure by a Rhodian sculptor

Grave Stele of Hegeso, Klismos Chair

Athens, Greece

5th century BCE

1.58m high

Capitoline “She-Wolf” and Romulus and Remus

5th century BCE

Etruscan work

Temple of Hercules Victor

oldest surviving marble structure in Rome

2nd century BCE

Pantheon

Rome, Italy

built by Agrippa in 27 BCE

142” diameter

Roman Vault

A: barrel/tunnel vault

B: groin/cross vault