Ancient Near Eastern Art Flashcards
Sumerian Art
(3,500-2,350 BCE) Cities: Ur, Uruk, Tell Asmar (Irak)
Female Head
Sumerian: 3,000 BCE White Marble
White Temple
Sumerian: plan, reamins, interior of cella 3,000 BCE
Statues from Abu Temple
Sumerian: Tell Asmar 2,700 BCE
limestone, alabaster, gypsum
Goat in the Thicket
Sumerian: Royal Cemetery at Ur 2,600 BCE
Bull Lyre
Sumerian: Royal Cemtery at Ur 2,600 BCE
Royal Standard of Ur
Sumerian: Royal Cemetery of Ur 2,600 BCE
Head of an Akkadian Ruler (Sargon?)
Akkadian Art: Ninevah 2,200 BCE
Bronze
Stele of Naram-Sin
Akkadian Art: Susa 2,254 BCE
Great Ziggurat of King Urnammu
Neo-Sumerian: Ur 2,100 BCE
mud-brick, bitumen
Gudea with Temple Plan
New-Sumerian: Lagash 2,100 BCE
Diorite
Hammurabi stele
Babylonian Art: Susa 1,760 BCE
Gate at the Citadel of Sargon II
Assyrian Art: 720 BCE
Fugitives Crossing River
Assyrian Art: 883 BCE
alabaster relief
Lion Hunt
Assyrian Art: 645 BCE
relief
Ishtar Gate
Late Babylonian Period: Babylon 575 BCE
Glazed brick
Rhyton
Iranian Art: 5th-3rd centuries BCE
gold
Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
Iranian Art: Persepolis 500 BC
Darius and Xerxes Giving Audience
Iranian Art 490 BCE
Ziggurat
Stepped Pyramids
Cuneiform
series of wedge-shaped signs
used by Sumerians to communicate
Cylinder seal
cylindrical objects usually made of stone used to seal things
Votive statues
offering statues
Registers
rows of a pictoral narative
Hieratic Scale
the use of different sizes for significant or holy figures and those of the everyday world to signify importance.
Stele
upright stone monument with inscriptions
Lamassu
statues at the gate of Ishtar with bulls body and human head
The Epic of Gilgamesh
epic poem from Mesapotamia
The Code of Hammurabi
ancient law code of Mesopotamia
