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Exam 1 Arh 203
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Undergraduate 1
02/05/2014

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White Temple

Uruk, Iraq

3000s bc

mesopotamian

 

cities monumental nucleus

city withen a city

rare because it's made of mud brick

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warka vase

iraq

3000 bce

mespotamian

 

first great work of relief sculpture known

depicts a religious festival in honor of the goddess

uses registers

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statues of two worshipers

2700 bc

iraq

mesopotamia

 

worship stautes for worshippers waiting for their god to come

the beakers the figures hold were used to pour liberations for the gods

represent mortals

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standard of ur

2400 bc

ur, iraq

mesopotamian

 

depeicts a battle victory

size of figures vary with their importance

war and peace side

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bull headed lyre

ur, iraq

2400 bc

mesopotamian

 

contains four narratives

narratives mostly consist of animals

earliest speciman of animals acting as people

 

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lamassu

700's bc

iraq

mesopotamian

 

gaurded an assyrian palace

used to ward off enemies

side veiw shows motion

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assyrian achers

800's bc

iraq

mesopotamian

 

depicts archers driving enemies into the river

combines different viewpoints in same

to conserve materials they squished the scene together

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ashurbanipal hunting lions

600's bc

iraq

mesopotamian

 

the hunt was a comman subject in assyerian palaces

meant to glorify their ruler

was a royal sport to slay lions

 

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ishtar gate

500's bc

berlin

persian

 

one of the gates was restored and installed in a german museam

babylonean bulilders molded and glazed each brick sperately

if a monument was important it had the glazed bricks

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persepolis

500-400 bce

iran

persian

 

buried in the sand and recovered

most important source of knowlege about persian arcitecture

cerimoneal complex

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palate of king narmer

3000's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

uses hiarachy of scale

effortlessly slays an enemy

falcon is the pharohs protector

 

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step pyramid

2000's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

first artist recorded

first pyramids

one of the oldest stone structures

 

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pyramids of giza

2000's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

shape of the emblem of the sun

75 years to build

tombs of 4th dynasty pharohs

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khafre enthroned

2000's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

made of precious stone

meant for spirits after someone dies

pose creates an eternal stillness

 

 

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Menkaure and queen statue

2000's bc

giza, Egypt

Egyptian


pose signifies the couple is married

eternal home for ka

classfied as a high relief sculpture

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ti watching a hippopotamus hunt

2000's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

hunt was a metapor for triumph of evil

uses frontal possition to show ti's status

peice of funerary art to show nature of dead

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rock cut tombs

1900's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

hollowed out cliffs

makes it harder for theifs

characteristic of middle kind=gdom==

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mortuary temple

1400's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

 

 tomb of the first great recored female monarch

arciteched was her rumored lover

part of an even larger complex

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facade of the temple

1200's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

all larger statues are ramses little statues are family

four images of himself are a proclemation of greatness

sulcpter sacraficed details because of size

 

 

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temple of Amen-Re

1200's

Egypt

Egyptian

 

contains an artifical lake

rises like sacred mound that rose from waters at the begining of time

hippo style halls

 

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Akenaton sculpture

1300's bc

Egypt

Egyptian


different style than original pharaoh sculptures

maybe an attempt to portray pharaoh as aton the sexless sundisk

buried after his death

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akhenaton and nefertiti relief

1300's bc

Egypt

Egyptian

 

rare look into royal family domestic setting

possibly from private shrine

curves replace rigid lines

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Megan Barnett

August 12, 1993

Alabama

21st century

 

Works at Victoria Secret

Loves to antoganize Allie's inner spelling Nazi

WILL make a good grade on the test.

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