Pictures Flashcards

Venus of Willendorf
Austria
28,000-25,000
Paleolithic


Hall of the Bulls
Lascaux, France
16,000-14,000 BCE
Paleolithic


Birdman Composition
Lascaux, France
16,000-14,000 BCE
Paleolithic

Landscape with a volcanic eruption
wall painting in situ and watercolor copy
Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
1650 BCE
Paleolithic


Female head (goddess Inanna?)
Uruk, Iraq
3200-3000 BCE
protoliterate


Stonehenge
Wiltshire, British Isles
3200-3000 BCE
protoliterate
near eastern


Stele of the Vultures (fragment)
Girsu, Iraq
2600-2500 BCE
sumerian


Standard of Ur (War and Peace)
Royal Cemetary at Ur
2600-2400 BCE
sumerian
wood, lapiz, lazuli, shell, and red limstone


Head of Akkadian Ruler
Nineveh, Iraq
2250-2200 BCE


Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Susa, Iran
2254-2218 BCE
pink sandstone
Akkadian


Gudea seated with a plan
Girsu, Iraq
2100 BCE
Diorite


Ziggurat at Ur
(Neo-Sumerian)
Ur, Iraq
2100 BCE


Law code of Hammurabi
Susa, Iran
1780
diorite


Lion Gate
Baghazkoy, Turkey
1400 BCE


Statue of Queen Napir-Asu
Susa, Iran
1350 BCE
copper and bronze

Relief of Ashurbanipal hunting lions
North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq
645-640 BCE
Gypsum


Ishtar Gate (restored)
Babylon, Iraq1
575 BCE
glazed brick
neo-babylonian


Apadanas of Darius I and Xerxes I
Persepolis, Iran
521-465 BCE


and details Judgement of Hunefer
from the Book of the Dead
Tomb of Hunefer, Thebes
1290-1275 BCE


Palette of King Narmer
Hierakonpolis
3000-2920 BCE


Wall painting from Predynastic tomb (detail of a copy)
Hierakonpolis
3500-3200 BCE


Ihmotep, Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser
Saqqara
2630-2611 BCE


Great Pyramids of Gizeh
Khufu - Khafre - Menkaure
2551-2472 BCE


Model of Pyramid at Gizeh