Woman from Willendorf

Austria c. 24,000 BCE

Limestone, h: 4 3/8"

Woman from Ostrava Petrkovice

Czech Repulic c. 23,000 BCE

Hematite, h: 1 3/4"

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave

Dordogne, France c. 15,000 BCE

Paint on Limestone

Length of longest bull: 18'

Bird-headed Man with Bison, Lascaux Cave

Dordogne, France c. 15,000 BCE

Paint on Limestone

Stonehenge

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England

c. 2,750 - 1,500 BCE

Standing Male Worshipper

Excavated in central Mesopotamia

Alabaster, shell, black limestone

2750 BCE

Stele of Naram Sin

c. 2,254 - 2,218 BCE

Limestone, height: 6'6"

Hieratic scale

Gudea

Lagash (modern day Telloh, Iraq)

c. 2,120 BCE

diorite, h: 29"

Stele of Hammurabi

From Susa (modern Shush, Iran)

c. 1,792 - 1,750 BCE

Basalt, h: 7'

Hammurabi (r. 1,792 - 1,750 BCE)

Palette of King Narmer

c. 2,950 - 2,775 BCE

Green schist, h: 25"

Judgment of Hunefer Before Osiris

Illustration from a Book of the Dead. 19th Dynasty, c. 1,285 BCE

Painted papyrus, h: 15"

Menkaure and Queen (possibly his wife Khamerernebty)

from Giza

4th Dynasty (r. 2,490 - 2,472 BCE)

Graywacke with traces of red and black paint, h: 54"

Seated Scribe

Found near the tomb of Kai, Saqqara

5th Dynasty, c. 2,450 - 2,425 BCE

Painted limestone with inlaid eyes of rock crystal, calcite, and magnesite

mounted in copper

h: 21"

Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut

Deir El-Bahri

18th Dynasty, New Kingdom

c. 1,473 - 1,458 BCE

Colonnade from the third terrace of Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut

Column: An architectural element used for support and/or decoration. Vertical shaft placed on a base. Free standing or attached to a background wall

Colonnade: A row of columns supporting a straight lintel

Hatshepsut Enthroned

Deir el-Bahri, 18th Dynasty

c. 1,473 - 1,458 BCE

limestone

Akhenaten and his Family

Akhetaten (present-day Tell el-Amarna)

18th Dynasty

c. 1,353 - 1,336 BCE

Painted limestone sunken relief, 12" x 15"

Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers

Detail of wall painting, Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiti, Thera.

Before 1630 BCE

Fresco

Landscape (Spring Fresco)

Wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction

from Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades.

Before 1630 BCE

Woman or Goddess with Snakes

From the palace complex at Knossos, Crete, New Palace Period

c. 1700 - 1550 BCE

Faience, h: 11"

Funerary Vase (Krater)

Dipylon Cemetary, Athens

c. 750 - 700 BCE

Terracotta, h: 42"

Temple of Hera I

Paestum (ancient Poseidonia), Italy

c. 550 - 540 BCE

New York Kouros

Attica

c. 600 BCE

Marble. h: 6'

The Suicide of Ajax

Exekias

Ancient Greece

540 BCE

Funerary Plaque

Ancient Greece

520 BCE

Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)

Polykleitos

Ancient Greece

Original: 450 BCE

Riace Warrior A

Ancient Greece

460 BCE

The Parthenon

Ancient Greece

447 BCE

Gallic Chieftain Killing his Wife and Himself

Ancient Greece

Original: 220 BCE

Laocoon and his Sons

Hagesandros

Ancient Greece

Original: 200 BCE

Isis-Aphrodite

Ancient Egypt under Roman Rule

2nd century CE

Augustus of Primaporta

Roman Empire

Early 1st Century CE

Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus in the Villa of the Mysteries

Roman Empire, Pompeii

60 BCE