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Prehistoric/Ancient Near East Art
40,000 BCE - 50 BCE
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
09/09/2009

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Cards

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Wall painting with horses, rhinos, aurochs

 

Chauvet Cave, Fr

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Lion-human

Hohlenstein-Stradel, Germany

mammoth-ivory

30,000-26,000 BCE

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Women from Willendorf

Austria

limestone

24,000BCE

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Womem from Ostrave Petrkovice

Czech Rep.

23000 BCE

hematite

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Women from Brassempouy

Grotte du Pape, Landes, FR

30,000BCE

ivory

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Spotted Horse & Human hands

Pech-Merle Cave, Fr

25,000BCE-horses

15000-hands

paint on limestone

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Hall of Bulls

Lascuax Cave, Fr

15000 BCE

paint on limestonw

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Bird-headed man w/ bison

Lascuax cave, Fr

15000BCE

paint on limestone

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Bulls

Altamira, Spain

12500 BCE

paint limestone

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Bison

Le Tuc d'Audoubert, Fr

13000BCE

unbaked clay

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lamp w/ ibes design

La Mouthe cave, Fr

15000-13000BCE

engraved stone

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People & animals

Cogul, Lerida, Spain

4000-2000 BCE

rock-shelter

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Skara Brae

Orkney Is, Scotland

3100-2600 BCE

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tomb w/ corbeling engraved stones

new grange, ireland

3000BCE

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stonehenge

salisbury plain, wiltshire, England

2750-1500 BCE

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figure of woman and man

cernavoda, romania

3500 BCE

ceramic

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vessels

denmark

3000 bce

ceramic

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horse & sun chariot & drawing of head design

Trudholm, Denmark

1800 BCE

bronze

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openwork box lid

cornalaraugh country, ireland

1st cent bce

bronze

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human headed-winged lion (Lamassu)

colossal gateway, palace of Assurnasirpal II

Mesopotamia

883-859bce

alabaster

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walls & tower, jericho

8000 bce

mud brick, rubble, stone

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chatal huyuk

anatolia

6500 bce

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human figure

ain ghazal, jordan

7000 bce

fired lime plaster with cowrie shell, bitumen eyes

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ruins of white tempel

uruk

3300 bce

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face of woman- warka head

uruk

3300 bce

marble

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carved vase- uruk vase

uruk

3300 bce

alabaster

 

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votive figures

the sqaure tempel

eshunna

2900 nce

limestone, alabaster, gypsum

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nanna ziggurat

ur

2100 bce

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great lyre with bulls head

royal tomb, ur

2550 bce

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

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cylinder seal & its impression

ur

lapis lazuli

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head of man- akkadian ruler

nineveh

2300 bce

copper alloy

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stele of naram-sin

sippar, susa

2220 bce

limestone

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votive of gudea

girsu

2090 bce

diorite

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stele of hammurabi

susa

1792 bce

diorite

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lion gate

hattusha

1400 bce

limestone

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assurnasirpal II killing lions

palace of assurnasirpal II

850 bce

alabaster

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drawing of citadel & palace of sargon II

Dur Sharrukin

721 bce

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assurbanipal and queen in garden

palace of nineveh

647 bce

alabaster

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ishtar gate & throne room wall

recon. in berlin, orig. from Babylon

575 bce

glazed brick

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ceremonial complex, persepolis

iran

518 bce

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spinning woman

susa

8th cent bce

bitumen compund

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apadana audience hall, darius & xerxes

ceremonial complex

persepolis, iran

518 bce

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darius & xerxes recieving tribute

persepolis, iran

491 bce

limestone

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daric

coin 1st minted under darius I of persia

4th cent. bce

gold

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front and back of gold coin

minted under croesus, king of lydia

560 bce

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