silk road midterm

White Temple (Ziggurat), 3200-3000 BCE, Uruk (modern-day Iraq), Sumerian Period, mud brick

Ziggurat, Ur (modern-day Iraq), Sumerian Period, 2100 BCE, mud brick

Warka Vase, Sumerian Period,

3200-3000 BCE, alabaster

Votive disk of Enheduanna (ca. 2300-2250 BCE), Akkadian Period, alabaster

Victory Stela (or Stela of Naram-Sin), 2250 BCE,

Akkadian Period, sandstone

Stela with Law Code (of Hammurabi with Shamash),

Babylonian Period, 1780 BCE, basalt

Lamassu (aka Human-Headed Winged Bull),

Assyrian Period, 720 BCE, limestone

Lion Hunt, Assyrian Period, 645 BCE, limestone (Patron: Ashurbanipal)

Hanging Gardens at Ninevah, Assyrian Period, c. 645 BCE, limestone (Patron:

Ashurbanipal)

Ishtar Gate (Restored), Babylonian

Period (Iraq), 575 BCE, limestone

(Patron: Nebuchadnezzar II)

The Cyrus Cylinder (539 BCE), Achaemenid/Persian Empire, clay (Patron:

Cyrus the Great)

Behistun (520-518 BCE), Persian empire, Iran

Apadana, c. 520–465 B.C.E. Persian (Achaemenid), Persepolis

Processional friezes, Apādana, c. 520–465 B.C.E. (limestone)

Jar (Hu), c. 2650-2350 BCE, Banshan Culture, China, fired clay

yellow jade zhulong ('pig dragon'), c. 3800-2700 BCE, Hongshan Culture, jade

Bi, c. 2500 BCE, Liangzhu, jade

Jade Cong, c. 2500 B.C.E., Liangzhu culture, jade

Inscribed tortoise carapace (“oracle bone”), Anyang period,

late Shang dynasty, c. 1300–1050 B.C.E., tortoise shell, China

Lidded ritual ewer (guang) with taotie, dragons, birds, tigers, elephants, fish, snakes, and humans (c. 1100–1050 B.C.E.), Shang Dynasty, bronze

The Terracotta Army, c. 221 - 206 BCE, Qin dynasty, terracotta

Funerary Banner of the Lady of Dai,

(2nd century BCE), ink and color on

silk, Han Dynasty, China

Flying horse (tomb of Governor-General Zhang) (late 2nd c. CE), Han Dynasty, bronze

The life and death of the Buddha (Gandhara Frieze) (2nd c. CE), Buddhism, stone

The Great Stupa (3rd c. BCE - 1st c. CE), Buddhism, Sanchi, India

The Buddha (2nd c. CE), Buddhism (Mathura), red sandstone — The Buddha (2nd c. CE), Buddhism (Gandhara), stone (schist) — The Buddha (5th c. CE), Buddhism (Gupta), red sandstone

The Bodhisattva Maitreya (c. 3rd c. CE),

Buddhism (Gandhara), stone (schist)

The Buddha preaching the first

sermon (5th c. CE), Buddhism (Gupta-

Sarnath), sandstone

The Buddha offering Protection (6-7th c.

CE), Buddhism (Gupta), copper alloy

Characteristics of the Buddha

Ushnisha (cranial bump), Urna (third eye), Mudra (gesture)

Seated Buddha (338 CE), Buddhism

(Northern China), gilt bronze

Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha (550-588 CE), Northern Qi dynasty, limestone with traces of pigment

Ajanta Grottoes (c. 200 B.C.E. – 650 C.E.), Buddhism,India

Mogao caves at Dunhuang

4th CE - 14th century

The Diamond Sutra (868), Buddhism (China), woodblock print on paper

Vairocana Buddha, monks and bodhisattvas - Longmen

Grottoes(673–75 C.E.), Buddhism (Tang dynasty), limestone

Bodhisattva, (Guanyin), Northern Qi dynasty, c. 550-60, Shanxi Province, China, sandstone with pigments

Pensive bodhisattva

Korea

mid-7th century, gilt bronze

Hōryūji (7th c CE), Buddhism (Asuka Period), Japan

Shaka Triad (7th c CE), Tori Busshi, Buddhism (Asuka Period), Japan

Todai-ji (7th c CE), Buddhism (Nara Period), Japan

The Great Buddha (Daibutsu) (17th century replacement of

an 8th century sculpture), Buddhism (Nara period), copper

Jataka

tales of the buddhas past lives

The Kaaba (631-32 C.E., multiple renovations), pre-Islamic monument, rededicated by Muhammad,

granite masonry, covered with silk curtain and calligraphy in gold and silver-wrapped thread

Mihrab from the Madrasa (religious school) Imami

(c. 1354), Islamic, Glazed mosaic tilework, Isfahan, Iran

Qur’an page with beginning of surah 18, “Al-Kahf” (The Cave) (9th or early 10th century), Islamic, Ink and gold on vellum

Folio from the Blue Qur’an (second half 9th–mid-10th century), Islam, gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment

the Great Mosque (706–

715), Islamic, Damascus, Syria

Dome of the Rock (687–692), Abd al Malik-

Umayyad Caliphate, Islamic, Jerusalem

Camel with Musicians

China, Tang dynasty (618–907 CE)

glazed earthenware,

Sogdian Dancer

Tang dynasty (618–907 CE)

China, Bronze with gilt bronze base

Cup with Goats (8th century CE.) Sogdiana, Gilded silver

Lobed Bowl with Lion, Foliage Enclosed in a Medallion

(late 6th–early 7th century CE.), Sogdiana, Silver

Sogdian Banqueters (first half of 8th century CE), Sogdian, fresco

Ossuary (ca. 7th c. CE), Sogdiana, Baked clay

Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities (550-577), China, qi dynasty, Grey marble with traces of pigment

Funerary Bed of An Qie (579 CE). China, Gilded and painted stone relief

Sarcophagus of Shi Jun (Wirkak) and Wiyusi (579–80 CE), China, Stone with traces of pigment and gilding

Shōshōin Repository

Treasure house of todaiji, holds hundreds of buddhist items

intoxicated Barbarian King Mask (8th century

CE), Japan, Carved Paulownia wood with white

undercoating, polychrome pigments, gold leaf,

and ink drawing; adhered horse hair

Biwa (ca. 8th century), Japan (Nara

period), red sandalwood lute with mother

of pearl inlay

Safe Conduct Pass (Paiza) with Inscription in Phakpa Script

(late 13th c.), Yuan dynasty, China, Iron with silver inlay

Horses and Grooms (c. 1300), Zhao Mengfu, Yuan dynasty, ink on paper

Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain (1308), Guan Daosheng, Ink on paper

The David Vases (1351), Yuan dynasty, porcelain, cobalt and clear glaze

Marco Polo and Rustichello, Il Milione, Chapter 123 and 124, page from the Book "The Travels of Marco Polo" ("Il milione”), original 1298-1299, unknown illustrator

Rihla, original c. 1354, this manuscript 1836, Ibn Battuta, manuscript

Catalan Atlas (1375), Elisha ben Abraham Cresques, ink, paint, and gold leaf on parchment

Encampment in the Desert (15th c.), unknown artist, Ming dynasty, ink on silk

Mural at entrance, Liao Dynasty Tombs, south wall, Liao dynasty, 1125, Shanxi Province

Folios from Persian Manuscripts, a Camp Scene, Mir Sayyid Ali, 1550

Cuman Wagons in the Radziwill Chronicle, Russia, 1490’s