Ancient Mediterranean Flashcards
temple
the white temple and it’s ziggurat
Uruk, Sumerian
c. 3500 - 3000 BCE
mud brick
two statues
statues of votive figures
square temple at eshunna, sumerian
c. 2700 BCE
gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
three layered
standard of ur war/peace
royal tombs at ur, sumerian
c. 2600 - 2400 BCE
wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone
guy and god
the code of hammurabi
babylon, susian
c. 1792 - 1750 BCE
basalt
lion thingys
lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
dur sharrukin, neo assyrian
c. 720 - 705 BCE
alabaster
4 towers and stuff
audience hall of darius and xerxes
persopolis, iran persian
c. 520 - 465 BCE
limeston
khol mixer ayy
palette of king narmer
predynastic egypt
c. 3000 - 2920 BCE
greywacke
guy sitting writing
seated scribe
Saqqara, Egypt
old kingdom, fourth dynasty
2620 - 2500 BCE
painted limestone
pyramids
great pyramids and great sphinx
giza, egypt
old kingdom, fourth dynasty
c. 2550 - 2490 BCE
cut limestone
guy and girl
king menkaura and queen
old kingdom fourth dynasty
c. 2490 - 2472 BCE
greywacke
another temple but not white
temple of amun-re
karhak, near luxor, egypt
new kingdom, 18/19th dynasty
c. 1550 BCE
cut sandstone and mud brick
the not white temple but only the columms
^^^
+ hypostyle hall
c. 1250 BCE
temple of female egyptian pharoah
mortuary temple of hatshepsut
karnak, near luxor, egypt
new kingdom, 18th dynasty
c. 1353 - 1335 BCE
limestone
young pharoah guy
Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
new kingdom 18th dynasty
c. 1323 BCE
gold inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
passing through to the afterlife
last judgement of hu-nefer from his tomb
new kingdom, 19th dynasty
c. 1275 BCE
painted papyrus scroll
