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Ancient Near Eastern Art Flashcards

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Sumerian Art

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(3,500-2,350 BCE) Cities: Ur, Uruk, Tell Asmar (Irak)

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Female Head

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Sumerian: 3,000 BCE White Marble

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White Temple

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Sumerian: plan, reamins, interior of cella 3,000 BCE

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Statues from Abu Temple

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Sumerian: Tell Asmar 2,700 BCE

limestone, alabaster, gypsum

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Goat in the Thicket

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Sumerian: Royal Cemetery at Ur 2,600 BCE

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Bull Lyre

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Sumerian: Royal Cemtery at Ur 2,600 BCE

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Royal Standard of Ur

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Sumerian: Royal Cemetery of Ur 2,600 BCE

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Head of an Akkadian Ruler (Sargon?)

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Akkadian Art: Ninevah 2,200 BCE

Bronze

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Stele of Naram-Sin

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Akkadian Art: Susa 2,254 BCE

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Great Ziggurat of King Urnammu

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Neo-Sumerian: Ur 2,100 BCE

mud-brick, bitumen

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Gudea with Temple Plan

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New-Sumerian: Lagash 2,100 BCE

Diorite

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Hammurabi stele

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Babylonian Art: Susa 1,760 BCE

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Gate at the Citadel of Sargon II

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Assyrian Art: 720 BCE

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Fugitives Crossing River

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Assyrian Art: 883 BCE

alabaster relief

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Lion Hunt

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Assyrian Art: 645 BCE

relief

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Ishtar Gate

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Late Babylonian Period: Babylon 575 BCE

Glazed brick

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Rhyton

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Iranian Art: 5th-3rd centuries BCE

gold

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Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes

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Iranian Art: Persepolis 500 BC

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Darius and Xerxes Giving Audience

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Iranian Art 490 BCE

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Ziggurat

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Stepped Pyramids

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Cuneiform

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series of wedge-shaped signs

used by Sumerians to communicate

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Cylinder seal

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cylindrical objects usually made of stone used to seal things

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Votive statues

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offering statues

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Registers

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rows of a pictoral narative

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Hieratic Scale

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the use of different sizes for significant or holy figures and those of the everyday world to signify importance.

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Stele

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upright stone monument with inscriptions

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Lamassu

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statues at the gate of Ishtar with bulls body and human head

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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epic poem from Mesapotamia

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The Code of Hammurabi

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ancient law code of Mesopotamia

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