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Later Mesopot and Egyptian art
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Stele of Naram-Sin Akkadian

 

Akkad

 

2,220 - 2,184 B.C.

 

Hieratic Scale, Stele

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The stele of Hammurabi

 

Babylon

 

1,792 - 1,750 B.C.

 

cuniform, first written laws

 

 

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Lamassus from the palace of nimrud assyria

 

Assyria

 

883-859

 

 skematic, conceptual, high-relief

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Assurnasirpal II killing lions

 

palace of nimrud, Assyria

 

647 BC

 

movement, not static

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Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden

 

palace of nineveh, Assyria

 

647 BC

 

victory celebration, narrative, low relief

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Ishtar Gate and Throne Room

 

Neobabylon

 

575 BC

 

 glazed bricks, low-relief molds

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Darius and Xerxes recieving tribute

 

palace of persepolis, persia

 

491-486 BC

 

low-relief sculpture

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the pallete of namer

 

Early Dynastic Period

 

2,950 - 2,775 BC

 

heiroglyphic, registers, twisted perspective, heiratic scale

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great pyramids

 

giza, egypt

 

2,575 - 2,450 B.C.

 

 

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khafre

 

Valley Temple of Khafre, Egypt

 

2,520 - 2,492 B.C.

 

strength, and permanence

 

 

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