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Name: White Temple and its ziggurat

Date: 3500-3000 BCE

Period/ culture: Sumerian

Medium: Mud brick

Location: Uruk

 

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Name: Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna

Date: 2700 BCE

Period/ culture: Sumerian

Medium: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone 

Location: modern Tell Asmar, Iraq

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Name: Standard of Ur from the Royal Tomvs at Ur

Date: 2600-2400 BCE

Period/ culture: Sumerian

Medium: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Location: modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq

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Name: The Code of Hammurabi

Date:1792-1750 BCE

Period/ culture: Susian

Medium: Basalt

 

Location:  Babylon (Iran)

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Name: Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Date: 720-705 BCE

Period/ culture: Neo-Assyrian

Medium: Alabaster

Location: Dur Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad, Iraq

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Name: Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Date: 520-465

Period/ culture: Persian

Medium: Limestone

 

Location: Persepolis, Iran

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