Key Works/Monuments (Prehistoric-Ancient Egyptian Art) Flashcards
NAME: Woman from Willendorf
CULTURE/PERIOD: Paleolithic, ca. 24,000 BCE
MEDIUM: limestone
LOCATION: Willendorf, Austria
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NAME: Spotted Horses and Human Hands
CULTURE/PERIOD: Paleolithic, 25,000-24,000 BCE
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LOCATION: Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France
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NAME: Bison
CULTURE/PERIOD: Paleolithic, ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE
MEDIUM: Paint on limestone
LOCATION: Chauvet Cave, France
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NAME: Bird-Headed Man with Bison and Rhino
CULTURE/PERIOD: Paleolithic, ca. 15,000 BCE
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LOCATION: Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France
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NAME: Great stone tower built into the settlement wall
CULTURE/PERIOD: Neolithic, ca. 8000–7000 BCE
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LOCATION: Jericho, Palestine
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NAME: Human Skulls with Restored Features
CULTURE/PERIOD: Neolithic, ca. 7200-6700 BCE
MEDIUM: plaster, paint, shells
LOCATION: Jericho, Palestine
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NAME: Restored View of Çatal Höyük
CULTURE/PERIOD: Neolithic, ca. 6000–5900 BCE
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LOCATION: Çatal Höyük, Turkey
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NAME: Skara Brae
CULTURE/PERIOD: Neolithic, ca. 3100-2500 BCE
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LOCATION: Orkney Islands (Scotland)
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NAME: Anu (the Sky God) Ziggurat and White Temple
CULTURE/PERIOD: Sumerian, c. 3200-3000 BCE
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LOCATION: Uruk
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NAME: Votive Figures
CULTURE/PERIOD: Sumerian, ca. 2900-2600 BCE
MEDIUM: Limestone, alabaster gypsum
LOCATION: Eshnunna, Iraq
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NAME: Great Lyre with Bull’s Head
CULTURE/PERIOD: Sumerian, ca. 2600-2500 BCE
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LOCATION: Royal Tomb, Ur (Iraq)
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NAME: Royal Standard of Ur
CULTURE/PERIOD: Sumerian, ca. 2600-2400 BCE
MEDIUM: Wood, lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone
LOCATION: From large male grave (Tomb 779) in the Royal Cemetery, Ur
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NAME: Stele of Naram-Sin
CULTURE/PERIOD: Akkadian, ca. 2254-2218 BCE (twenty second century)
MEDIUM: Pink limestone, 6’ 7”
LOCATION: Susa
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NAME: Stele of Hammurabi
CULTURE/PERIOD: Babylonian, ca. 1792-1750 BCE (eighteenth century)
MEDIUM: Black basalt, 7’
LOCATION: Susa (Iran)
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NAME: Human-Headed Winged Lion (Lamassu)
CULTURE/PERIOD: Assyrian, 883-859 BCE (ninth century)
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LOCATION: Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Kalhu (Nimrud)
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NAME: Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions
CULTURE/PERIOD: Assyrian, ca. 850 BCE
MEDIUM: stone relief
LOCATION: Palace at Kalhu (Nimrud, Iraq)
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NAME: Palette of King Narmer
CULTURE/PERIOD: Early Dynastic, ca. 2950-2775 BCE
MEDIUM: Green schist, 25”
LOCATION: Hierakonpolis
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NAME: Stepped-Pyramid, Funerary Complex of King Djoser
CULTURE/PERIOD: Third Dynasty, c. 26302575 BCE
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LOCATION: Saqqara
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NAME: Pyramid of Khafre (Khephren)
CULTURE/PERIOD: Fourth Dynasty, c. 2575-2450
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LOCATION: Giza
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NAME: Seated Khafre
CULTURE/PERIOD: Fourth Dynasty (ruled 2520-2494 BCE)
MEDIUM: diorite-gabbro gneiss, 5’ 61/8”
LOCATION: Valley Temple of Khafre, Giza
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NAME: Seated Scribe
CULTURE/PERIOD: Fifth Dynasty, ca. 2450-2325 BCE
MEDIUM: painted limestone, 21”
LOCATION: Saqqara
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NAME: Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
CULTURE/PERIOD: Eighteenth Dynasty, ca. 1473-1458 BCE
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LOCATION: Deir el-Bahri
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NAME: Colossal of Akhenaten
CULTURE/PERIOD: Eighteenth Dynasty, ca. 1353-1335 BCE
MEDIUM: Sandstone, 16 ft.
LOCATION: Karnak
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NAME: Akhenaten and His Family
CULTURE/PERIOD: Eighteenth Dynasty, ca. 1353 BCE
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