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UGA, ARHI 2300, Kemling, Week 1
Images from Week 1, Spring 2011
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
02/13/2011

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Human Figure with Lion Head

c. 30,000-28,000 BCE

Paleolithic Period

Mammoth Ivory

Found in Germany

29.6 cm (11.7 inches) in height, 5.6 cm wide, and 5.9 cm thick

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Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)

28,000-25,000 BCE

Paleolithic Period

Limestone

Discovered in Austria

4.3 inches high

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Man and Bison

c. 15,000-13,000 BCE

Paleolithic Period

Charcoal and various earth pigments

Lascaux, France

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Stonehenge

c. 2550-1600 BCE

Neolithic Period

Sarsen and Bluestone

Salisbury, England

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Standard of Ur ("War" and "Peace")

c. 2600 BCE

Sumerian Period

Wood inlay with precious stone (lapis lazuli)


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Ziggurat

c. 2100 BCE

Sumerian Period

Mudbrick

Ur, Iraq

Commissioned by Ur-Nammu

Part of temple complex, center of nealry all Sumerian civilizations

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Law Code Stele of Hammurabi

c. 1780 BCE

Babylonian Period

Basalt

Discovered in modern-day Iran

On display at the Louvre

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