Hall of Bulls, Lascaux, 15,000 BCE, (Paleolithic Period)

Question: Who Was it made for?

Cave Dwellers and nomatic huntsmen

Question: What was the stylistic or thematic meaning?

Bulls , deer and rhino representitive of the hunt, symbolic of sympathetic majic

Question: What is Purpose?

Representation of killed beasts for food and belief that it is good to document kills

Venus of Willendorf, 28,000 BC, Paleolithic Period

Question: Who was it made for?

Made for the community or tribe

Question: What is the Stylistic meaning or Theme?

Made for fertility object, large breasts and stomach representing healthy diet of food, No facial features

Question: What is the Purpose?

To honor fertility and ability to aquire food

Bison, La Madeleine, 15,000 BC, Paleolithic Period

Question: Who was it made for?

For prehistoric nomatics and hunters

Question: What is the Stylistic meaning or theme?

bison with head turned back, bas relief, made of reindeer horn, in the round

Question: What is the Purpose?

Used by hunters in spear throwing with Hand

Deer Hunt, Catal hoyuk, 5750 bce, Neolithic

Question: Who was it made for?

Made for nomatic hunters or cave dwellers

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

Depicted men, hunters chasing deer in hunt

Question: What was is the purpose?

Sympathetic magic for the killing of dear, documentation of their successful hunt.

Stonehenge, Wiltshire England, 1800 BCE, Neolithic Period

Question: Who was it made for?

Communities and religous leaders of area

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

A group of megalithes placed in a circle to create a cromlech for religous leader to make a calendar for seasons

Question: What is the Purpose?

To study the stars in conection to the soltice and planting seasons, Post and lintel construction

Warka Vase, 3200 BC, Sumerian

Question: Who was it made for?

Priests and religous figures

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or Theme?

Ceremonial services on outside of vase 

Question: What is the purpose?

Celebrates harvest in registars

Standard of Ur, 2600 BCE, Sumerian

Question: Who was it made for?

King or Ruler

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

Registars of war on one side peace on the other, made of inlays of lapis liuli and other stones

Question: What is the Purpose?

Most likely a music box or decorative placard

Statuettes of Two Worshippers, Abu Temple, 2700 BCE, Sumerian

Question: Who was it made for?

They were made for stand in for worshippers

Question: What is the Stylistic meaning or theme?

Large eyes and heirachical scale in representation of social status in relious setting , votive figures

Question: What is the purpose?

social settings when they could not attend functions

White Temple at Uruk, 3200 BCE, Sumerian

Question: Who was it made for?

made for the community and people

Question: What is the stylistic meaning and theme?

Was an alter placed above the terraine built in steps and terraces for religuos ceremonies

Question: What is the purpose?

For the religous leaders to reach god and protected from the other tribes and cities for safe keeping the temple

Ziggurat, at Ur, Iraq, 2100 BCE, Sumerian

Question:Who was it made for?

Communities or tribes or peoples

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or Theme?

made to protect and depend religous treasures from outside enemies made of brick and mud, like a step pyramid with stairs

Question: What is the purpose?

for religous gatherings for the gods and the ruler

Bull-Headed lyre sound box, Ur, 2600 BCE, Sumerian

Question: Who was it made for?

For a musical lyre sound box, a musical instrument

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

Bulls head decorated with lais luzulli and gold

Question: What is the purpose?

Decorate a kings tomb and a little music

Victory Stele of Naram-sin, 2254 BCe, Akkadian

Question: Who was it made For?

Naram-sin and his people

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

Showed king with horns which means god like conquering his enemies

Question: What is the purpose?

A stele or commerative marker representing an event

like our statues of our prsidents but much smaller scale

The Stele of Hammerabi, Babylonian, 1780 BC

Question: Who was it made for?

Made for the people of babylon 

Question: What is the sylistic meaning and Theme?

Made to be a stele or commerative marker with the laws of hammerabi on the stone, Shows hammerabi talking with the god, has head with horns,

Question: What is the purpose?

Create a sytem of laws to regulate commerce and rules for social welfare and justice

Ishtar Gate and Throne Room, 575 BC, Babylonian

Question: Who was it made For?

Nebucannezer

Question: What is the sylistic meaning or theme?

Glased brick of lapis luzili, grand symbols of king and babylon, shows wealth and power

 Question: What is the purpose?

to build a grand palace to support the power and authority of the king

Lamassu sculpture, Assyrian, 720 BC

Question: Who was it made for?

Sargon 2

Question: What is the stylistic meaning and Theme?

winged human headed bull, symbolic of power

Question: What is the Purpose?

To gaurd the passage way and show the power of god king

Processional Frieze, hall of darius, Persepolis, 521 BC, Persian

Question: Who was it made for?

Darius ruler of persia

Question: What is the Stylistic meaning and Theme?

Representive of many places that the king controlled in a frieze to honor him

Question: What is the Purpose?

To depict the rulers conquest in a historical depiction

Seated Statue of Judea, Girsu, 2150 BC, Mesopotamia

Question: Who was it made for?

For King Judea anhis people

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or Theme?

Sitting position refers to royalty and strengtH and power

feet together and face straight forward

Question: What is the Purpose?

as a representational statue to honor the joining of the two rivers intom one community

Palette of King Narmer, Egyptian, 3000 BC

Question: Who was it made for?

King Narmer

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

Represent the joining of upper and lower Egypt, bas relief , registars and heiarchrical scale

Question: What is the purpose?

Used by king to place eye make up on his face

Imhotep, Djoser Stepped Pyramid, Egyptian, 2630 BC

Question:Who was it made For?

Made for Pharoah as a Burial Place

Question: what is the sylistic meaning or Theme?

Stepped pyramid made of stone placed in levels 

Question: What is the Purpose?

Made to house the remains of the pharoah ion a burial chamber.

Khafre, Giza, 2520 BC

Question: Who was it made for?

Made for the Pharoah Khafre

Question: What is the sylistic meaning and Theme?

One of many pyramids with finished smooth exterior of limestone with a point of gold at top

Question: What is the Purpose?

The purpose is a burial site which housed a burial chamber for the pharoah, A place where the pharoahs ka could rest in piece

Ti Watching Hippopotamus Hunt, 2450 BC

Question: Who was it made For?

Made for Ti 

Question: What is the sylistic meaning or Theme?

A realistic portrayal of daily life of the king watching hippopotamus being hunted , black on eyes to help with the bright sun , children with shaved head, fully painted

Question: What is the purpose?

For depiction in his burial chamber to decorate his life after death traveling barge

Prince Rahotep and Queen Nofret, 2580 BCE, Old Kingdom

Question:Who was it made For?

The burial tomb of Both

Question: What is the Stylistic meaning and Theme?

Prince is painted in dark tones as being in sunlight and queen in lighter tones as being indoors

Question: What is the purpose?

Memorial for their Ka and spirit in their afterlife

Seated Scribe, 2450 BC, Eygptian

Question: Who was it made for?

For the Scribe 

Question: What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

Big belly means high level in society, colored or painted realistic. made of limestone.

Question:What is the purpose?

A statue

To depict A scibe, may have been used in Pharoahs burial tomb.

Great Pyramids, Giza, 2551 BC, Egyptian

Question: Who was it made For?

Question: What was the sylistic meaning and Theme?

Question: What is the purpose?

Great Sphinx, Giza, 2520 BC, Egyptian

Question: who was it made for?

Pharoah of Egypt

Question: What is the Stylistic meaning or Theme?

Half lion half pharoah, representing power and majesty, carved out of the hillside and parts added to to complete, Part of a larger building complex to honor pharoah at Karnak

Question: What is the purpose?

To celebrate the acomplishments of Pharoah, To show his power and sovienty

Temple of Rames II, Abu Simbel,Persopolis 1290 BC, Egyptian

Who was it made for?

Rameses 2

What was the Stylistic meaning and Theme?

 His reign over the many years, longest living pharoah, 4 main statues representing different periods of his life.

What is the Purpose?

To comemerate his power and glory , rebirth of crops

Pillar Statue of Akhenaton, 1353 BC, Egyptian

Who was it made for?

Akhenaton

What is the stylistic meaning or Theme?

More realistic portrayal of pharoah with long shaped head and long torso

What is the purpose?

Placed in temple to commemrate his position of power and rule over egypt

Bust of Queen Nefertiti,Armana Period, 1344 BC, Egyptian

Who was it made for

Queen

What is the sylistic meaning or theme?

Realistic, painted, Long neck and decorated with inlay of stones.

What is the Purpose?

Tp Portray her in a regal and powerful setting

Death Mask of Tutankhamen, 1323 BC, Egyptian

Question: Who was it made for?

Question: What is the sylistic meaning or theme?

Question: What is the purpose?

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshesut, 1472 BC, Egyptian

Who was it made for?

What is the stylistic meaning or theme?

What is the purpose?

Fowling Scene, Thebes, 1400BC, Egyptian

Question: Who was it made for?

Question: What is the sylistic meaning or theme?

Question: What is the purpose?