APAH Unit 2 Mesopotamia and Egypt

White Temple and its ziggurat

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq). Sumerian.

c. 3500-3000 B.C.E.

Mud brick.

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

Sumerian

c. 2700 B.C.E

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

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

Sumerian.

c. 2600-2400 B.C.E.

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

The Code of Hammurabi

Babylon (modern Iran). Susian.

c. 1792-1750 B.C.E.

Basalt.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq).

Neo-Assyrian.

c. 720-705 B.C.E.

Alabaster.

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran. Persian.

c. 520-465 B.C.E.

Limestone

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt

3000-2920 BCE.

Greywacke

Seated Scribe

Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty.

c. 2620-2500 B.C.E.

Painted limestone.

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

Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty.

c. 2550-2490 B.C.E.

Cut limestone.

King Menkaura and Queen

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty.

c. 2490-2472 B.C.E.

Greywacke

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple:

c. 1550 B.C.E.; hall: c. 1250 B.C.E.

Cut sandstone and mud brick.

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty.

c. 1473-1458 B.C.E.

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

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty

1353-1335 BCE

limestone

Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty.

c. 1323 B.C.E.

Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.

Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead).

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty.

c. 1275 B.C.E.

Painted papyrus scroll.