Ancient Mediterranean 35,000 BCE - 300 CE

Question 1

White Temple and its Ziggurat

Answer 1

• mud and brick
• looks like a mountain with slanted sides and a ramp that leads to an alter
• three entrances
• votive figure dedicated to Anu
• Iraq

Question 2

Palette of King Narmer

Answer 2

• greywacke
• organized in low relief registers that depict the hierarchic scale
• unification of Egypt
• temple of Horus, Egypt

Question 3

Statues of Votive Figures

Answer 3

• bilateral symmetry
• exaggerated eyes that hold the divine
• gypsum and black limestone
• helps those who can’t speak with the divine be around something that can
• found in a temple in Iraq

Question 4

Seated Scribe

Answer 4

• painted limestone
• royal scribe, sagging body (realistic not idealistic), thin face
• holds writing tools and shows that scribes are important but not as important as pharaohs
• Egypt

Question 5

Standard of Ur

Answer 5

• wood with shell, black limestone, and lapis lazuli (mosaic)
• hierarchic scale, twisted perspective
• 2 sides, one war, one peace
• found in the royal tombs at Ur (modern day Iraq)

Question 6

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

Answer 6

• square based, 4 sloped sides (represents rays of sun)
• polished limestone
• adjoining funerary complex
• Sphinx: human head, lion body
• maintains tombs for eternity
• Giza, Egypt

Question 7

Menkaure and Queen

Answer 7

• graywacke, symmetrical, one foot in front of the other
• idealized figures
• old kingdom

Question 8

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 8

• black stone stele with words carved into it
• basalt
• twisted perspective
• Sun God tells Hammurabi to be king (this was how laws were created)
• Babylon

Question 9

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Answer 9

• cut sandstone and mud brick
• hypostyle hall
• inscriptions of Gods on the walls and columns
• used for festivities and prayer
• East side of the Nile

Question 10

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Answer 10

• sandstone, red granite, built into a cliff
• not her actual resting place
• shrines and statues shown of her, one of her praying to Amen

Question 11

Akhenaton, Neferiti, and three daughters

Answer 11

• sunken relief piece
• limestone
• hieroglyphics
• couple receiving blessing from Aten while divine sun shines on them
• religious shift in Egyptian art
• New Kingdom (Amarna)

Question 12

Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Answer 12

• gold, stone, enamel
• crook and flail, symbols of holy animals
• sarcophagus
• New Kingdom

Question 13

Last Judgement of Hunefer

Answer 13

• painted papyrus scroll
• her heart and sins get weighed and she is let into heaven
• narrative
• from the Book of the Dead found in her tomb

Question 14

Lamassu

Answer 14

• alabaster and limestone
• animal body with human head, five legs
• intimidates people who walk past it
• Iraq

Question 15

Athenian Agora

Answer 15

• long buildings (stoa)
  -market place and temple
• government representative met
• Athens

Question 16

Anavysos Kouros

Answer 16

• marble with remnant of paint
• archaic style, slight contrapposto
• nude male warrior
• grave marker