ID’s of Ancient Near East & Ancient Egypt

Question 1

White temple and its ziggurat

Answer 1

Culture: Sumerian
Location: Uruk (Modern, Iraq)
Medium: Mud brick
Date: 3500-3000 BCE

Question 2

Statue of Votive figures

Answer 2

Culture: Sumerian
Location: Eshnunna (Modern, Iraq)
Medium: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
Date: c. 2700 BCE

Question 3

Standard of Ur

Answer 3

Culture: Sumerian
Location: Royal tombs at Ur (Modern, Iraq)
Medium: Wood, inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
Date: c. 2600-2400 BCE

Question 4

The Code of Hammurabi

Answer 4

Culture: Susian
Location: Babylon (Modern Iraq)
Medium: Basalt
Date: c. 1792-1750 BCE

Question 5

Lamassu

Answer 5

Culture: Neo-Assyrian
Location: Dur Sharrukin, (Modern, Iraq)
Medium: Alabaster
Date: c. 720-705 BCE

Question 6

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes

Answer 6

Culture: Persian
Location: Persepolis, Iran
Medium: Limestone
Date: c. 520-465 BCE

Question 7

Palette of King Narmer

Answer 7

Culture: Predynastic Egypt
Location: Egypt
Medium: Greywacke
Date: 3000-2920 BCE

Question 8

Seated Scribe

Answer 8

Culture: Old Kingdom
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
Medium: Painted Limestone
Date: 4th Dynasty 2620-2500 BCE

Question 9

Great Pyramids and Sphinx (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu)

Answer 9

Culture: Old Kingdom
Location: Giza, Egypt
Medium: Cut Limestone
Date: 4th Dynasty 2550-2490 BCE

Question 10

King Menkaura and Queen

Answer 10

Culture: Old Kingdom
Location: Egypt
Medium: Greywacke
Date: 4th Dynasty c. 2490-2472

Question 11

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Answer 11

Culture: New Kingdom
Location: Luxor Egypt
Medium: Cut sandstone and mud brick
Date:18th and 19th Dynasties C 1550 BCE

Question 12

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Answer 12

Culture: New Kingdom
Location: Luxor Egypt
Medium: Sandstone, partially carved, red granite
Date: 18th Dynasty C 1473-1458 BCE

Question 13

Akenaton, Nefertiti and 3 daughters

Answer 13

Culture: New Kingdom (Amarna)
Location: Egypt
Medium: Limestone
Date: 18th Dynasty C 1353-1335 BCE

Question 14

Tutankhamun’s Tomb, coffin

Answer 14

Culture: New Kingdom
Location: Egypt
Medium: Gold, inlay of enamel, Semiprecious stones
Date: 18th Dynasty C 1323 BCE

Question 15

Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer, (page from Book of the Dead)

Answer 15

Culture: New Kingdom
Location: Egypt
Medium: Painted Papyrus Scroll
Date: 19th Dynasty C 1275 BCE