Ancient Near Eastern Art Flashcards by Marissa Schwartz

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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

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