Untitled Flashcards Set

Venus of Willendorf - ca. 28,000–25,000 bce, Willendorf, Austria. Limestone, 4 ¼" (10.8 cm) high - possibly created as a talisman for fertility; 

Statues from Abu Temple - Votives are a sacred space like a temple, a voluntary offering to a god is put in place as a petition or to show gratitude; as in votive candle; These works functioned as stand-ins, as it were, for donor worshippers who, in their absence, wished to continue to offer prayers to a specific deity.

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin - one of the few surviving Akkadian art reliefs; commemorates military exploits of Sargon’s successor Naram-Sin

Law Code of Hammurabi - basalt stele of the code created by King Hammurabi of Babylon ranging from medical malpractices to criminal offenses

Narmer Palette - likely used for ceremonial purposes, commemorates the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt under a single ruler, King Narmer

Statue of Khafre - statue of Pharaoh Khafre; detailed presentation of him carved into diorite; sense of solidity

Bust of Queen Nefertiti - Akhenaton’s wife, Queen Nefertiti; main representation of a new artistic style in the new world: Curving lines and soft, feminized forms

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three of their children - The royal family sits beneath the rays of the sun disk Aton, whose cult was at the center of Akhenaton’s reforms. The extreme ease and naturalism of the style is typical of the Amarna period

2700 B.C.E. The approximate date of the Statues from Abu Temple 

2520 B.C.E. The pyramid of Khafre was begun

1760 B.C.E. The law code of Hammurabi was incised with cuneiform