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Title: Carved Vessel
Chronological Period: Sumer
Location: Uruk
Materials: Alabaster |
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Title: Twelve Votive Figures
Chronological Period: Sumer
Location: Unknown
Materials: Limestone, Alabaster, Gypsum |
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Title: Scenes of War
Chronological Period: Sumer
Location: Ur
Materials: Shell, Lapis Lazuli, Red Limestone, Bitumen |
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Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
Chronological Period: Akkad
Location: Sippar
Materials: Limestone |
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Title: Nanna Ziggurat
Chronological Period: Neo Sumeria
Location: Ur
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Votive Statue of Gudea
Chronological Period: Neo Sumeria
Location: Girsu
Materials: Diorite |
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Title: Stele of Hammurabi
Chronological Period: Babylon
Location: Sippar
Materials: Basalt |
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Title: Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions
Chronological Period: Assyria
Location: Kalhu
Materials: Alabaster |
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Title: Guardian Figures at Gate A of the Citadel of Sargon II
Chronological Period: Assyria
Location: Dur Sharrukin
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Reconstruction Drawing of Babylon in the 6th Century BCE
Chronological Period: Neo-Babylonia
Location: Unknown
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute
Chronological Period: Persia
Location: Persepolis
Materials: Limestone |
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Title: The Palette of Narmer
Chronological Period: Early Dynastic Egypt
Location: Hierakonpolis
Materials: Green Schist |
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Title: The Step Pyramid and Sham Buildings, Funerary Complex of Djoser
Chronological Period: Early Dynastic Egypt
Location: Saqqara
Materials: Limestone |
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Title: Great Pyramids
Chronological Period: Old Kingdom Egypt
Location: Giza
Materials: Limestone and Granite |
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Title: Khafre
Chronological Period: Old Kingdom Egypt
Location: Giza
Materials: Diorite-Gabbro Gneiss |
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Title: Rock-Cut Tombs, Beni Hasan
Chronological Period: Middle Kingdom Egypt
Location: Beni Hasan
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Hatshepsut Kneeling
Chronological Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Location: Deir el-Bahri
Materials: Red Granite |
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Title: Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir El-Bahri
Chronological Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Location: Deir el-Bahri
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Akhenaten and his Family
Chronological Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Location: Akhetaten
Materials: Limestone |
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Title: Temple of Ramses II
Chronological Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Location: Abu Simbel
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Figure of a Woman with a Drawing Showing Evidence of Original Painting and Outlining Design Scheme
Chronological Period: Cyclades
Location: Unknown
Materials: Marble |
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Title: Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers
Chronological Period: Minoan
Location: Akrotiri
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Bull Leaping
Chronological Period: Minoan
Location: Knossos
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Harvester Rhyton
Chronological Period: Minoan
Location: Hagia Triada
Materials: Steatite |
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Title: The Flotilla Fresco
Chronological Period: Minoan
Location: Akrotiri
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Lion Gate
Chronological Period: Mycenae
Location: Unknown
Materials: Unknown |
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Title: Corbel Vault, Interior of Tholos, the so-called Treasury of Atreus
Chronological Period: Mycenae
Location: Unknown
Materials: Limestone |
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| In ancient Mesopotamia, a tall stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine |
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| A stone coffin. Often rectangular and decorated with relief sculpture |
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| In ancient Egyptian tombs, the small room in which the ka statue was placed |
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| A large cemetery or burial area; literally a "city of the dead" |
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| An image created as a devotional offering to a deity |
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| Supernatural guardian-protector of ancient Near Eastern palaces and throne rooms |
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| A vessel in the shape of a figure or an animal, used for drinking or pouring liquids on special occasions |
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| A stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs. Used as a grave marker or commemorative monument |
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| The main hall of a Mycenaean palace or grand house |
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| Relief sculpture is a three-dimensional image or design whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth, setting off the figure. Called sunken relief when the image is carved below the original surface of the background, which is not cut away |
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| Fresco is a painting technique in which water-based pigments are applied to a plaster surface. If the plaster is painted when wet, the color is absorbed by the plaster, becoming a permanent part of the wall |
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