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Animal facing left
Location: Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia
Date: ca. 23,000 BCE
Misc: Charcoal on stone, 5" x 4 1/4" |
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Human with a feline head
Location: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
Date: ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE
Misc: Mammoth ivory, 11 5/8" high |
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Venus of Willendorf
Location: Willendorf, Austria
Date: ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE
Misc.: Limestone, 4 1/4" high. One of the first human sculptures, as opposed to animals. |
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Two bison, reliefs
Location: Le Tuc d'Audoubert
Date: ca. 15,000-10,000 BCE
Misc: Clay, 2' long each. |
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Bison with turned head, fragmentary spear-thrower.
Location: La Madeleine, France
Date: ca. 12,000 BCE
Misc.: Reindeer horn, 4" long. |
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Bison, detail of a painted ceiling.
Location: Altamira, Spain
Date: ca. 12,000-11,000 BCE
Misc.: Each 5' long. |
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Spotted horses with negative hand imprints.
Location: Pech-Merle, France
Date: ca. 22,000 BCE
Misc.: 11'2" long each. |
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Hall of Bulls
Location: Lasceaux, France
Date: ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE
Misc.: Largest 6'11" long. |
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Banquet scene, cylinder seal.
Location: the tomb of Pu-abi (tomb 800), Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar)
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Misc: Lapis lazuli, 2" high. |
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Female head (Inanna?)
Location: Uruk (modern Warka)
Date: ca. 3200-3000 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 8" high. |
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Statuettes of two worshippers
Location: Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar), Iraq
Date: ca. 2700 BCE
Misc.: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone; male figure 2'6" high |
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Fragment of the victory stele of Eannatum (Stele of the Vultures)
Location: Girsu (modern Telloh), Iraq
Date: ca. 2600-2500 BCE
Misc.: Limestone, fragment 2' 6" high |
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War side of the Standard of Ur
Location: Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Misc.: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. |
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Peace side of the Standard of Ur
Location: Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Misc.: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. |
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Bull-headed lyre
Location: "King's Grave", Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Misc.: Gold leaf and lapis lazuli over a wooden core. |
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Stele with the law code of Hammurabi
Location: Susa, Iran
Date: ca. 1780 BCE
Misc.: Basalt, 7' 4" high. |
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Khafre enthroned.
Location: Gizeh, Egypt.
Date: Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2530-2494
Misc.: Diorite, 5' 6" high |
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Seated scribe.
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
Date: Fourth dynasty, ca. 2500 BCE
Misc.: Painted limestone, 1' 9" high |
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Fowling scene
Location: Thebes, Egypt
Date: 18th Dynasty, ca. 1400-1350 BCE
Misc.: Fresco on dry plaster, 2' 8" high |
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Akhenaton
Location: The Temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt
Date: 18th Dynasty 1353-1335 BCE
Misc.: Sandstone, 13' high. Example of artistic revolution Akhenaton started. |
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Figurine of a woman.
Location: Syros (Cyclades), Greece
Date: ca. 2500-2300 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 1' 6" high. |
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Male lyre player
Location: Keros (Cyclades), Greece
Date: ca. 2700-2500 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 9" high. |
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Bull leaping
Location: the palace at Knossos (Crete), Greece
Date: ca. 1450-1400 BCE
Misc.: Fresco, 2' 8" high |
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Landscape with swallows (Spring Fesco)
Location: Thera (Cyclades), Greece
Date: ca. 1650 BCE
Misc.: Fresco, 7' 6" high |
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Snake Goddess
Location: the palace at Knosses (Crete), Greece
Date: ca. 1600 BCE
Misc.: Faience, 1' 1 1/2" high |
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Geometric krater
Location: the Diplyon cemetery, Athens, Greece
Date: ca. 740 BCE
Misc.: 3' 4 1/2" high |
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Corinthian black figure amphora
Location: Rhodes, Greece
Date: ca. 625-600 BCE
Misc.: 1' 2" high |
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Kouros
Date: ca. 600 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 6' 1/2" high |
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Kroisos
Location: Anavysos, Greece
Date: ca. 530 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 6' 4" high |
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EUPHRONIOS, Herakles wrestling Antios
Location: Cerveteri, Italy
Date: ca. 510 BCE
Misc.: red-figure calyx krater, 1' 7" high |
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EUTHYMIDES, Three revelers
Location: Vulci, Italy
Date: 510 BCE
Misc.: 2' high, Athenian red-figure amphora |
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Kritios Boy
Location: Athens, Greece
Date: ca. 480 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 3' 10" high |
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POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Location: Pompeii, Italy
Date: 450-440 BCE
Misc.: Marble copy, 6' 11" high; perfect statue |
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PRAXITELES, Aphrodite of Knidos
Date: ca. 350-340 BCE
Misc.: 6' 8" high, Roman marble copy |
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LYSIPPOS, Weary Herakles (Farnes Herakles)
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: ca. 320 BCE
Misc.: Marble copy, 10' 5" high |
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EPIGONOS, Gakkuc chieftan killing himself and his wife
Date: 230-220 BCE
Misc.: Marble copy, 6' 11" high |
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Old market woman
Date: ca. 150-100 BCE
Misc.: Marble, 4' 1/2" high |
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