Ancient Near Eastern Art

Question 1

Sumerian Art

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Female Head

Answer 2

Sumerian: 3,000 BCE White Marble

Question 3

White Temple

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Statues from Abu Temple

Answer 4

Sumerian: Tell Asmar 2,700 BCE

limestone, alabaster, gypsum

Question 5

Goat in the Thicket

Answer 5

Sumerian: Royal Cemetery at Ur 2,600 BCE

Question 6

Bull Lyre

Answer 6

Sumerian: Royal Cemtery at Ur 2,600 BCE

Question 7

Royal Standard of Ur

Answer 7

Sumerian: Royal Cemetery of Ur 2,600 BCE

Question 8

Head of an Akkadian Ruler (Sargon?)

Answer 8

Akkadian Art: Ninevah 2,200 BCE

Bronze

Question 9

Stele of Naram-Sin

Answer 9

Akkadian Art: Susa 2,254 BCE

Question 10

Great Ziggurat of King Urnammu

Answer 10

Neo-Sumerian: Ur 2,100 BCE

mud-brick, bitumen

Question 11

Gudea with Temple Plan

Answer 11

New-Sumerian: Lagash 2,100 BCE

Diorite

Question 12

Hammurabi stele

Answer 12

Babylonian Art: Susa 1,760 BCE

Question 13

Gate at the Citadel of Sargon II

Answer 13

Assyrian Art: 720 BCE

Question 14

Fugitives Crossing River

Answer 14

Assyrian Art: 883 BCE

alabaster relief

Question 15

Lion Hunt

Answer 15

Assyrian Art: 645 BCE

relief

Question 16

Ishtar Gate

Answer 16

Late Babylonian Period: Babylon 575 BCE

Glazed brick

Question 17

Rhyton

Answer 17

Iranian Art: 5th-3rd centuries BCE

gold

Question 18

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes

Answer 18

Iranian Art: Persepolis 500 BC

Question 19

Darius and Xerxes Giving Audience

Answer 19

Iranian Art 490 BCE

Question 20

Ziggurat

Answer 20

Stepped Pyramids

Question 21

Cuneiform

Answer 21

series of wedge-shaped signs

used by Sumerians to communicate

Question 22

Cylinder seal

Answer 22

cylindrical objects usually made of stone used to seal things

Question 23

Votive statues

Answer 23

offering statues

Question 24

Registers

Answer 24

rows of a pictoral narative

Question 25

Hieratic Scale

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Stele

Answer 26

upright stone monument with inscriptions

Question 27

Lamassu

Answer 27

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

Question 28

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 28

epic poem from Mesapotamia

Question 29

The Code of Hammurabi

Answer 29

ancient law code of Mesopotamia