unit 2 (ancient mediterranean & egypt) identifiers

2 images

• White Temple and its ziggurat

• Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq)

• Sumerian

• c. 3500-3000 BCE

• Mud brick

2 images

• Palette of King Narmer

• Predynastic Egypt

• c. 3000-2920 BCE

• Greywacke

• Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)

• Sumerian

• c. 2700 BCE

• Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

• Seated scribe

• Saqqara, Egypt

• Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

• c. 2620-2500 BCE

• Painted limestone

2 images

• Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq)

• Sumerian

• c. 2600-2400 BCE

• Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

2 images

• Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx

• Giza, Egypt

• Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

• c. 2550-2490 BCE

• Cut limestone

• King Menkaura and queen

• Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

• c. 2490-2472 BCE

• Greywacke

• The Code of Hammurabi

• Babylon (modern Iran)

• Susian

• c. 1792-1750 BCE

• Basalt

3 images

• Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

• Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

• New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties

• Temple: c. 1550 BCE

• Hall: c. 1250 BCE

• Cut sandstone and mud brick

2 images

• Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

• Near Luxor, Egypt

• New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

• c. 1473-1458 BCE

• Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite

• Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

• New Kingdom (Amarna)

• 18th Dynasty

• c. 1353-1335 BCE

• Limestone

• Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

• New Kingdom

• 18th Dynasty

• c. 1323 BCE

• Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

• Last judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)

• New Kingdom

• 19th Dynasty

• c. 1275 BCE

• Painted papyrus scroll

• Lamassus from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)

• Neo-Assyrian

• c. 720-705 BCE

• Alabaster

• Athenian agora

• Archaic through Hellenistic Greek

• 600 BCE-150 CE

• plan

• Anavysos Kouros

• Archaic Greek

• c. 530 BCE

• Marble with remnants of paint

• Peplos Kore from the Acropolis

• Archaic Greek

• c. 530 BCE

• Marble, painted details

• Sarcophagus of the Spouses

• Etruscan

• c. 520 BCE

• Terra cotta

2 images

• Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

• Persepolis, Iran

• Persian

• c. 520-465 BCE

• Limestone

3 images

• Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo

• Master sculptor Vulca

• c. 510-500 BCE

• Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock)

• terra cotta sculpture

• Tomb of the Triclinium

• Tarquinia, Italy

• Etruscan

• c. 480-470 BCE

• Tufa and fresco

2 images

• niobides Krater

• Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter

• c. 460-450 BCE

• Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)

• Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

• Polykleitos

• Original 450-440 BCE

• Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze)

6 images

• Acropolis

• Athens, Greece, Iktinos and Kallikrates

• c. 447-410 BCE

• Marble

• Grave stele of Hegeso

• Attributed to Kallimachos

• c. 410 BCE

• Marble and paint

• Winged Victory of Samothrace

• Hellenistic Greek

• c. 190 BCE

• Marble

3 images

• Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

• Asia Minor (present-day Turkey)

• Hellenistic Greek

• c. 175 BCE

• Marble (architecture and sculpture)

3 images

• House of the Vettii

• Pompeii, Italy

• Imperial Roman

• c. 2nd century BCE

• Rebuilt c. 62-79 CE

• Cut stone and fresco

• Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii

• Republican Roman

• c. 100 BCE

• Mosaic

• Seated Boxer

• Hellenistic Greek

• c. 100 BCE

• Bronze

• Head of a Roman patrician

• Republican Roman

• c. 75-50 BCE

• Marble

• Augustus of Prima Porta

• Imperial Roman

• Early 1st century CE

• Marble

2 images

• colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

• Rome, Italy

• Imperial Roman

• c. 70-80 CE

• Stone and concrete

4 images

• Forum of Trajan

• Rome, Italy

• Apollodorus of Damascus

• Forum and markets: 106-112 CE

• column completed 113 CE

• Brick and concrete (architecture); marble (column)

2 images

• Pantheon

• Imperial Roman

• 118-125 CE

• Concrete with stone facing

• Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

• Late Imperial Roman

• c. 250 CE

• Marble