Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Prehistoric/Ancient Near East Art
40,000 BCE - 50 BCE
47
Art History
09/09/2009

Additional Art History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Definition

Wall painting with horses, rhinos, aurochs

 

Chauvet Cave, Fr

Term
Definition

Lion-human

Hohlenstein-Stradel, Germany

mammoth-ivory

30,000-26,000 BCE

Term
Definition

Women from Willendorf

Austria

limestone

24,000BCE

Term
Definition

Womem from Ostrave Petrkovice

Czech Rep.

23000 BCE

hematite

Term
Definition
Term
Definition

Women from Brassempouy

Grotte du Pape, Landes, FR

30,000BCE

ivory

Term
Definition

Spotted Horse & Human hands

Pech-Merle Cave, Fr

25,000BCE-horses

15000-hands

paint on limestone

Term
Definition

Hall of Bulls

Lascuax Cave, Fr

15000 BCE

paint on limestonw

Term
Definition

Bird-headed man w/ bison

Lascuax cave, Fr

15000BCE

paint on limestone

Term
Definition

Bulls

Altamira, Spain

12500 BCE

paint limestone

Term
Definition

Bison

Le Tuc d'Audoubert, Fr

13000BCE

unbaked clay

Term
Definition

lamp w/ ibes design

La Mouthe cave, Fr

15000-13000BCE

engraved stone

Term
Definition

People & animals

Cogul, Lerida, Spain

4000-2000 BCE

rock-shelter

Term
Definition

Skara Brae

Orkney Is, Scotland

3100-2600 BCE

Term
Definition

tomb w/ corbeling engraved stones

new grange, ireland

3000BCE

Term
Definition

stonehenge

salisbury plain, wiltshire, England

2750-1500 BCE

Term
Definition

figure of woman and man

cernavoda, romania

3500 BCE

ceramic

Term
Definition

vessels

denmark

3000 bce

ceramic

Term
Definition

horse & sun chariot & drawing of head design

Trudholm, Denmark

1800 BCE

bronze

Term
Definition

openwork box lid

cornalaraugh country, ireland

1st cent bce

bronze

Term
Definition

human headed-winged lion (Lamassu)

colossal gateway, palace of Assurnasirpal II

Mesopotamia

883-859bce

alabaster

Term
Definition

walls & tower, jericho

8000 bce

mud brick, rubble, stone

Term
Definition

chatal huyuk

anatolia

6500 bce

Term
Definition

human figure

ain ghazal, jordan

7000 bce

fired lime plaster with cowrie shell, bitumen eyes

Term
Definition

ruins of white tempel

uruk

3300 bce

Term
Definition

face of woman- warka head

uruk

3300 bce

marble

Term
Definition

carved vase- uruk vase

uruk

3300 bce

alabaster

 

Term
Definition

votive figures

the sqaure tempel

eshunna

2900 nce

limestone, alabaster, gypsum

Term
Definition

nanna ziggurat

ur

2100 bce

Term
Definition

great lyre with bulls head

royal tomb, ur

2550 bce

wood, gold, silver, lapis lazuli, bitumen, shell

Term
Definition

cylinder seal & its impression

ur

lapis lazuli

Term
Definition

head of man- akkadian ruler

nineveh

2300 bce

copper alloy

Term
Definition

stele of naram-sin

sippar, susa

2220 bce

limestone

Term
Definition

votive of gudea

girsu

2090 bce

diorite

Term
Definition

stele of hammurabi

susa

1792 bce

diorite

Term
Definition

lion gate

hattusha

1400 bce

limestone

Term
Definition

assurnasirpal II killing lions

palace of assurnasirpal II

850 bce

alabaster

Term
Definition

drawing of citadel & palace of sargon II

Dur Sharrukin

721 bce

Term
Definition

assurbanipal and queen in garden

palace of nineveh

647 bce

alabaster

Term
Definition

ishtar gate & throne room wall

recon. in berlin, orig. from Babylon

575 bce

glazed brick

Term
Definition

ceremonial complex, persepolis

iran

518 bce

Term
Definition

spinning woman

susa

8th cent bce

bitumen compund

Term
Definition

apadana audience hall, darius & xerxes

ceremonial complex

persepolis, iran

518 bce

Term
Definition

darius & xerxes recieving tribute

persepolis, iran

491 bce

limestone

Term
Definition

daric

coin 1st minted under darius I of persia

4th cent. bce

gold

Term
Definition

front and back of gold coin

minted under croesus, king of lydia

560 bce

Term
Definition