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Title: Human with a Feline Head
Location: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
Period: Paleolithic

Year: ca. 30000-28000 BC
Medium: ivory

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Title: Venus of Willendorf (Nude Woman)
Location: Willendorf, Austria
Period: Paleolithic

Year: ca. 28000-25000 BC
Medium: limestone

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Title: Aurochs, Horses, and Rhinoceroses
Location: Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, France
Period: Paleolithic

Year: ca. 30,000-28,000 or 15,000 to 13,000 BC
Medium: wall and cave paintings

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Title: Lascaux Caves
Location: France
Period: Paleolithic

Year: ca. 15000-13000 BC

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Title: Hall of the Bulls
Location: Lascaux Caves
Period: Paleolithic

Year: ca. 15000-13000 BC
Medium: wall and ceiling paintings

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Title: Statue of a Human Figure
Location: Ain Ghazal, Jordan
Period: Neolithic

Year: ca. 6750-6250 BC
Material: painted plaster and bitumen

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Title: City of Jericho
Location: Jericho
Period: Neolithic

Year: ca. 8000-7000 BC
Medium: stone architecture

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Title: Stonehenge
Location: Salisbury Plain, England
Period: Neolithic

Year: ca. 2550-1600 BC

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Title: White Temple and Ziggurat
Location: Uruk (Warka)
Period: Sumerian

Year: ca. 3200-3100 BC

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Title: Uruk (Warka) Vase
Location: Uruk
Period: Sumerian

Year: ca. 3500-3000 BC
Medium: alabaster

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Title: Votive Statues from the Temple of Abu
Location: Tell Asmar
Period: Sumerian

Year: ca. 2900-2600 BC
Medium: stone: most are limestone or gypsum

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Title: Lyre
Location: Ur
Period: Sumerian

Year: ca. 2600-2400 BC
Medium: gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell, bitumen and wood

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Title: Standard of Ur
Location: Ur
Period: Sumerian

Year: ca. 2600-2400 BC
Medium: shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone

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Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
Location: Susa
Period: Akkadian

Year: ca. 2250 BC
Medium: limestone

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Title: Statue of Gudea
Location: Girsu (Tello)
Period: Neo-Sumerian

Year: ca. 2130 BC
Medium: diorite

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Title: Stele with the Code of Hammurabi
Location: Susa
Period: Babylonian

Year: ca. 1792-1750 BC
Medium: basalt

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Title: Lamassu
Location: the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad
Period: Assyrian

Year: dedicated 721-705 BC

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Title: Relief of the Sacred Tree
Location: the Palace of Assurnasirpal at Nimrud
Period: Assyrian

Year: ca. 883-859 BC

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Title: Lion Hunt Relief
Location: the Palace of Assurbanipal, Nineveh
Period: Assyrian

Year: ca. 668-627 BC

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Title: Ishtar Gate
Location: Babylon
Period: Neo-Babylonian

Year: ca. 575 BC
Medium: glazed brick

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Title: Apadana
Location: Persepolis
Period: Achaemenid Persian

Year: begun 518 BC

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Title: Tribute Bearers Reliefs
Location: the Apadana at Persepolis
Period: Achaemenid Persian

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Title: Palette of Narmer
Location: Hierakonpolis
Period: Pre-Dynastic

Year: ca.3100-2920 BC
Medium: schist

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Architect: Imhotep
Title: Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Location: Saqqara
Period: Old Kingdom Egypt

Year: ca. 2630-2611 BC

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Title: Funerary Complex Location: Giza Period: Old Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 2550-2470 BC
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Title: Statue of Khafra (Chefren) Location: from his Valley Temple at Giza Period: Old Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 2520 BC Medium: diorite-gneiss
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Title: Painted relief of Ti hunting a hippopotamus Location: Tomb of Ti at Saqqara Period: Old Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 2400 BC
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Title: Funerary Complex of Mentuhotep II (Nebhepetra Montuhotep) Location: Deir el-Bahri Period: Middle Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 2061-2010 BC
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Title: Statue of Senwosret III (Sesostris or Senusret) Location: Deir el-Bahri Period: Middle Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1850 BC Medium: black granite
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Architect: Senmut Title: Funerary Complex of Hatshepsut Location: Deir el-Bahri Period: New Kingdom Year: ca. 1473-1458 BC
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Title: Statues of Hatshepsut in female form Location: Deir el Bahri Period: New Kingdom Year: ca. 1473-1458 BC
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Title: Statues of Hatshepsut in male form Location: Deir el Bahri Period: New Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1473-1458 BC
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Title: Stele of Akhenaten and his Family Location: Tell el Amarna Period: New Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1350-1335 BC Medium: limestone
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Title: Gold Throne from the Tomb of Tutankhamen Location: Valley of the Kings Period: New Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1333-23 BC
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Title: Painted Chest from the Tomb of Tutankhamen Location: Valley of the Kings Period: New Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1333-23 BC
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Title: Tutankhamun and his Wife Location: from his Gold Throne from the Tomb of Tutankhamen, Valley of the Kings Period: New Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1333-23 BC
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Title: Temple of Ramses II Location: Abu Simbel Period: New Kingdom Egypt Year: ca. 1290-1224 BC

Art of the Western World I (2 decks)

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