Ancient Near East
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copy deck
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cone mosaics -
Mesopotamia, Uruk
Uruk period c. 3500 BC
Structure support and decoration
Staatliche Museen, Berlin -
Uruk vase -
Mesopotamia, Uruk
Uruk period, 3500-3000 BC
Alabaster
Fertility festivals, association with Inanna
Iraq Museum, Baghdad -
White Temple -
Uruk
Uruk period c.3500-3000 BC
Stone and polished brick
Temple -
Abu temple votive figures -
Tell Asmar, Sumarian
Early dynastic c. 2800-2300 BC
Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
Possibly representations of wealthy worshipers -
Lyre sound box -
Ur, Sumeria (from tomb of Queen Puabi)
Early dynastic c. 2685 BC
Wood with inlaid gold, lapis lazuli, and shell
Musical instrument
University Museum Pennsylvania U. Philidelphia -
Head of an Akkadian Ruler -
From Ninevah, Iraq - Akkadian
Akkad c. 2300 BC
Bronze
May be portrait of Sargon I founder of Akkadian dynasty
Museum of Antiquities, Baghdad -
Victory stele of Naram-Sin -
Akkadian from Susa
Akkad c. 2254-2218 BC
Pink sandstone
Marks Akkadian victory -
body of Gudea -
Sumerian- Lagash, Iraq
Neo-Sumerian c. 2100 BC
Diorite
Honor Gudea, leader of Lagash -
Nanna Ziggurat -
Sumerian- Ur
Neo-Sumerian c. 2100-2050
Mud brick
Temple -
Stele of Hammurabi -
Amorites- From Susa, capital of Elam (Iran)
Babylon c.1792-1750 BC
Basalt
Inscribed with law code of Hammurabi
Louvre, Paris - King Assurnasirpal II
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From Nimrud, Iraq/ Assyrian
c. 883- 859 BC
British Museum, London -
Low relief of King Assurnasirpal II in a chariot -
King Assurnasirpal II Hunting Lions
Nimrud, Iraq/ Assyrian
Assyria c. 883-859 BC
Alabaster relief
British Museum, London -
Detail of the Great Lion Hunt -
Dying Lioness
Ninaveh, Assyrian
Assyria c. 668-627 BC
Alabaster relief
British Museum, London -
Gateway -
Lamassu gateway from Sargon II palace
Assyria c. 720 BC
Limestone
Louvre, Paris -
Gateway -
Ishtar Gate
Neo- Babylonian, c.575 BC
Glazed brick
Staatlich Museen, Berlin -
Temple with low relief sculpture -
Apadana, Persepolis
Persian, c. 500 BC
Used as an audience hall -
City attacked with a battering ram.
Low relief sculpture from palace of Assurnasirpal II -
Assyrian
Assyria, c.883-859 BC
Alabaster relief
British Museum, London