woman from willdendorf

austria

c. 30,000-25,000 BCE

fertility fetish 

great hall at Lascaux, France

c. 16,000-14,000 BCE

limestone

vase from uruk

iraq

3500-3000 bce 

victory stele of naramsin

2300-2200 bce

akkadian art

pink sandstone

ziggurat at Ur

iraq

sumarian 

2100 bce

stele of hammurabi

susa, iran

c. 1760 bce 

receiving power to rule from sun god 

palette of Narmer

hirakonpolis

c.3200 bce

ceremonial use; narmer ruling/joining upper and lower egypt 

step pyramid of king zoser

saqqara, egypt

c. 2770 bce 

mycerinus and his queen

giza

c. 2600 bce

ka statue 

protrait penl of hesira

saqqara

c. 3700 bce

wooden panel 

 stele of djet

from abydos

c. 3000 bc 

cycladic figure from amorgos

minoan/crete 

c. 3000 bce

marble 

plan of palace of knossos

c. 1700-1300 bce

minoan/crete

snake goddess of knossos

c. 1600 bce

minoan/crete 

plan of the citadel

mycenae

(think cyclopean masonry/lion gate) 

treasury of atreus

mycenae

c. 1300 bce

(think corbel vault/ashlar masonry) 

queen hatshepsut

c. 1480 bce

funerary temple of queen hatshepsut

deir el-bahari

new kingdom egypt 

c. 1480 bce

cut into rockface

laassu from khorsabad

c. 720 bce 

assyrian/babylonian 

dipylon vase

attic geopmetric amphora

8th cent. bce 

the basilica temple

italy

c. 540 bce

(think entasis - bowing of column shaft) 

fallen warrior

temple of aphaia, aegina

early 5th century bce

would have been within pedament 

charioteer

sanctuary of apollo

delphi 

apollo from the temple of zeus

pendiment

olympia

468-460 bce 

reconstruction of west pediment

temple of zeus

olympia 

lapith and centaur

metope from a parthenon frieze

the fates

parthenon - east pediment