midterm Flashcards
Catal Huyuk
6500 bce, turkey,
Uruk
Uruk, modern iraq, ‘the white temple,’ 3200-3000 bce, the city of gilgamesh
Head of ishtar
‘Votive Figures’ w big eyes
from tell asmar, 2900–2550 BC
significance: abstract structure of early dynastic temple sculpture
Bitumen used to secure it together and as pigment
Ziggurat
city of Ur, modern iraq, 2100
Temple complex
Harp of Ur
2550–2450 BC, ur
Burial ceremonies maybe
Standard of ur,
2600 bce, ur
the king hunts
assyrian palace reliefs, nineveh, 645–635 BC
Palette of Narmer
3100-3000 bCE,
For eye cosmetics
Pharaoh zoser’s funerary palace
, 2675-2625 bce, saqqare (near cairo)
IMHOTEP!
tomb of nebamun and ipuky at thebes, garden scene
1300
temple of amun
avenue of sphinxs ad the pylons, part of karnak, old kingdom egypt and continued to roman era
Statue of pharoah khafre
, 2575-2525 bce, siorite, gizeh (cairo)
mastaba tomb of ti
saqqara, 2400 bce
portrait of a seated scribe
2600 bce, at saqqara