Ancient Mediterranean Chapter 2 Ancient Near East Form

Ancient Mediterranean Chapter 2 Ancient Near East

Form Function Themes 12. White Temple and its Ziggurat. Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq). Sumerian c. 3600 -3000 BCE Mud brick. (2 images) Content Context Terms

Female Head, 3200 -3000 bce, Iraq

Warka Vase, 3200 -3000 bce, Iraq

Form Function Themes Content Context Terms 14. Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq) Sumerian. C. 2700 BCE Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Fragment of victory stele (Stele of Vultures) 2600 -2500 bce

Form Function Themes Content Context Terms 16. Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2600 -2400 BCE Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone (2 images)

Bull headed lyre, 2600 bce, Iraq

Cylinder seal, 2600 bce, Iraq

AKKADIAN, NEOSUMERIAN, BABYLONIAN AND HITTITE ART

Victory Stele of Naram Sin, 2254 -2218 bce

Ziggurat of Ur, 2100 bce

Form Function Themes Content Context Terms 19. The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (Modern Iraq). Susian. c. 1762 -1750 BCE basalt

Lion Gate, Turkey, 1400 bce

Statue of Queen Napir. Asu, 1350 -1300 bce, Iran

Form Function Themes Content Context Terms 25. Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq). Neo-Assyrian. c. 720 -705 BCE Alabaster

Assyrian Archers, 875 -860 bce, Iraq