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Art History 50
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10/22/2007

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Stone vase with ritual scenes, Mespotamia, Sumerian
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Statues from the temple of Abu at Tell Asmar, Mesopotamia, Sumerian
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Head of Akkadian ruler (Sargon of Akkad), Mesopotamia, Akkadian
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Stele of Naram-Sin, Mesopotamia, Akkadian
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Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Pre-dynastic
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Wall painting from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Pre-Dynastic
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Precinct of Zoser (Djoser), Stepped Pyramid, Saqqara, Egypt, Old Kingdom
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Statue of Chefren from his valley temple at Giza, Egypt, Old Kingdom
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Reliefs of Tomb (mastaba) of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt, Old Kingdom:

  Ti Hunting a hippopotamus

 

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Funerary Temple of Hapshepsut, Egypt, New Kingdom
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Seated statue of Hapshepsut, Egypt, New Kingdom
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Temple of Amon at Karnak, Egypt, New Kingdom
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Portrait bust of Queen Nofretete, Egypt, Amarna
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Stele of Akhenaten and his family, Eqypt, Amarna
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Painted chest of Tutankhamen, Egypt, New Kingdom (Post-Amarna)
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Tutankhamen and his queen ( back of throne in gold and enamel), Egypt, New Kingdom
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Palace of Minos, Minoan art from the Bronze Age in the Aegean

Throne Room (with stone seat and fresco of heraldic griffins)

 "Torreador" fresco (showing bull jumping)

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Harvester vase, Minoan, Aegean
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Statuette of snake goddess or priestess, Minoan, Aegean
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Vaphio cups, Mainland Greece, Mycenean
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Gold funeral mask from shaft grave (so-called Mask of Agamemnon), Mainland Greece, Mycenean
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Dagger with scenes of lion hunting, from shaft grave, Mainland Greece, Mycenean
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Lion gate (entrance to citadel), Mainland Greece, Mycenean
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Treasury of Atreus (Tomb of Agamemnon), Mainland Greece, Mycenean
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Warrior vase, Mainland Greece, Mycenean
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Bull-men (Guardians at the gate of the palace of Sargon at Khorsabad), Upper Tigris-Euphrates Valley, Assyrian
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Ceremonial reliefs of griffins fertilizing a sacred tree, Palace of Assurnasirpal, Upper Tigris-Euphrates Valley, Assyrian
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Assurnasirpal killing lions, relief from palace at Nimrud, Upper Tigris-Euphrates Valley, Assyrian
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Lion hunt of Assurbanipal, from the palace Ninveh, Upper Tigris and Euphrates, Assyrian
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Battle scene of Assurbanipal, from Nineveh, Upper Tigris and Euphrates, Assyrian
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Persepolis, Palace begun by Darius, continued by Xerxes, burned under the Greeks, Ancient Iran, Persian
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Entrance gateway to Persepolis with bull-man guardian figures, Ancient Iran, Persian
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Apadana (audience hall of Darius I), Ancient Iran, Persia
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Tribute bearers from the Nations of the Achaemenid Empire, Reief from Apadana, Persepolis, Ancient Iran, Persian
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Darius and Xerxes giving aduience, relief from Apadana, Persepolis, Ancient Iran, Persian
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Amphora Dipylon vase from the Kerameikos cemetary in Athens, Vase with funeral of woman, Geometric Period, Greece, 800-700 BCE
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Dipolyn vase, funeral procession of man, chariot procession, from Kerameikos cemetery in Athens, Geometric period, Greek, 800-700 BCE.
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Eleusis amphora (Polyphemus amphora): Blinding of Polyphemus; Persius and the Gorgons, Orientalizing period, Greek, 675-650 BCE
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Statue of Apollo dedicated by Mantiklos, Orientalizing, Greek, 700 BCE
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New York Kouros, probably from Attica, Archaic Sculpture, Greek, 600 BC
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Kroisos or Anavysos Kouros, Archaic Sculpture, Greek, 540-520 BCE
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Calf Bearer (Moscophoros), from Acropolis at Athens, Archaic Sculpture, Greek, 570 BCE
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Rampin rider, Acropolis at Athens, Archaic sculpture, Greek, 560 BCE
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Lady of Auxerre, made on Crete? Archaic sculpture, Greek, 650 BCE
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Hera of Samos, Archaic Sculpture, Greek, 570-560 BCE
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Peplos kore, Acropolis at Athens, Archaic Sculpture, Greek, 530 BCE
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Kore, Acropolis at Athens, Made of Greek islands? Archaic sculpture, Greek, 510 BCE
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Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, Archaic, Greek, 525 BCE
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Caryatid figures, at the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi, Archaic Sculpture, Greek, 525 BCE
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Friezes:

Seated Deities, Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, Archaic, Greek, 525 BCE 

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Friezes:

Battle of Gods and giants (north), Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, Archaic, Greek, 525 BCE 

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Friezes:

Trojan Way (east), Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, Archaic, Greek, 525 BCE

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Gorgon pediment of Temple of Artemis, Corfu, Archaic Architecture, Greek, 600-580 BCE
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Doric Collumns
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Ionic Collumns
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"Basilica" at Paestum, Italy, Archaic Architecture, Greek, 550 BCE (really a temple of Hera)
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Temple of Athena Aphaia at Aegina, Pedimental sculptures of battle of Greeks and Trojans, Late Archaic-early classical, Greek, 515-490 BCE
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"Krittos boy" Acropolis, Athens, Early Classical Art (Severe Style), Greek, 480 BCE
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Charioteer from Delphi, Early Classical Art (Severe Style), 470 BCE
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Zeus or Poseidon from Artemisium, Early Classical Art (Severe Style), Greek, 460 BCE
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Discobolos (Discus Thrower) by Myron, ca., Early Classical Art, Greek, 450 BCE
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Pedimental Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia:

Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs (west pediment), Early Classical Art (the Severe Style), Greek, 470-456 BCE

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Pedimental Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia:

Preparations for the Chariot Race of Pelops and Oenomaos (east pediment), Early Classical Art (the Severe Style), Greek, 470-456 BCE

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