Ancient Mediterranean Flashcards

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White Temple and its ziggurat

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Sumerian Uruk (Modern Warka, Iraq) 3,500-3,000 BCE Mud Brick

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Palette of King Narmer

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Predynastic Egypt 3,000-2,920 BCE Greywacke

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Statues of Votive Figures (From the Square Temple at Eshnunna)

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Sumerian Tell Asmar, Iraq 2,700 BCE Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

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Seated Scribe

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Saqqara, Egypt Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty 2,620-2,500 BCE Painted Limestone

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Standard of Ur

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Sumerian Royal Tombs at Ur Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq 2,600-2,400 BCE Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone

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Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) Great Sphinx

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Giza, Egypt Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty 2,550-2,490 BCE Cut limestone

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King Mankaura and Queen

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Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty 2,490-2,472 BCE Greywacke

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The Code of Hammurabi

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Susian Babylon Modern Iran 1,792-1,750 BCE Basalt

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Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

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Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties Temple: 1,550 BCE Hall: 1,250 BCE Cut sandstone and mud brick

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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

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Near Luxor, Egypt New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty 1,473-1,458 BCE Sandstone, partially carved into rock cliff, red granite

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Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

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New Kingdom (Armarna), 18th Dynasty 1,353-1,335 BCE Limestone

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Tutankhamen’s Tomb, Innermost Coffin

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New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty 1,323 BCE Gold with inlay of enamel ans semiprecious stones

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Last judgement of Hu-Nefer (From his tomb, page of his Book of the Dead)

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New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty 1,275 BCE Painted Papyrus Scroll

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Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II

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Dur Sharrukin modern Khorsabad, Iraq Neo-Assyrian 720-705 BCE Alabaster

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Athenian Agora

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Archaic through Hellenistic Greek 600 BCE-150 CE Plan

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Anavysos Kouros

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Archaic Greek 530 BCE Marble, painted details

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Peplos Kore (From the Acropolis)

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Archaic Greek 530 BCE Marble, painted details

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses

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Etruscan 520 BCE Terra Cotta

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Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

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Persian Persepolis, Iran 520-465 BCE Limestone

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Temple of Minerva and Sculpture of Apollo

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Veii, near Rome, Italy Master Sculptor Vulca Original temple: wood, mud brick, or tufa Terra cotta sculpture

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Tomb of the Triclinium

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Tarquinia, Italy Etruscan 480-470 BCE Tufa and Fresco

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Niobides Krater

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Niobid Painter 460-450 BCE Classical Greek Clay, red figure technique (white highlights)

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Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

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Polykleitos Original: 450-440 BCE Roman copy: marble Greek original: bronze

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Acropolis

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Athens, Greece Iktinos and Kalikrates 447-410 BCE Marble ADD MORE

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Grave Stele of Hegeso

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Attributed to Kallimachos 410 BCE Marble and paint

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Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace

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Hellenistic Greek 190 BCE Marble

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Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pargamon

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Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) Hellenistic Greek 175 BCE Architecture and sculpture: Marble

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House of the Vetti

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Pompeii, Italy Imperial Roman 200 BCE Rebuilt: 62-79 CE Cut Stone and Fresco

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Alexander Mosaic (From the house of the faun, Pompeii)

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Republican Roman 100 BCE Mosaic

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Seated Boxer

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Hellenistic Greece 100 BCE Bronze

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Head of a Roman Patrician

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Republican Roman 75-50 BCE Marble

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Augustus of Primaporta

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Imperial Roman 100 CE Marble

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Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

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Rome, Italy Imperial Roman 70-80 CE Stone and Concrete

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Forum of Trajan Apollodorus of Damascus

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Rome, Italy Forum and Markets: 106-112 CE Column: 113 CE Architecture: Brick/Concrete Column: Marble

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Pantheon

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Imperial Roman 118-125 CE Concrete with stone facing

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Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

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Late Imperial Roman 250 CE Marble