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Art History Test 1
Intro - Chapter 4
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Art History
Post-Graduate
02/07/2011

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Human with a Feline Head

from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE

Mammoth Ivory, 11 5/8" high

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Venus of Willendorf

from Willendorf, Austria

ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE

Limestone, 4 1/4" high

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Two Bison

Reliefs in a cave at Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France.

ca. 15,000-10,000 BCE

Clay, each 2' long.

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Hall of Bulls

Reliefs in a cave at Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France.

ca. 15,000-10,000 BCE.

Clay, each 2' long.

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Human Figure

From Ain Ghazal, Jordan

ca. 6750-6250 BCE

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Deer Hunt

Wall Painting, Level III at Catal Hoyuk, Turkey.

ca. 7,000 BCE

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White Temple

Uruk; ca. 3200-3000

The temple was a kind of city within a city. The White Temple of Uruk was probably dedicated to Anu, the great sky god.

Highest temple: 61 x 16 ft.

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Female Head 

from Uruk, Iraq

ca. 3,200 - 3,000 BCE

Marble, 8" high

The 'Sumerian Mona Lisa' after her recovery in September 2003

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Warka Vase

Uruk, Iraq

ca. 3,200-3,000 BCE

Alabaster, 3 1/4" high.

Presentation of offering to Inanna

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Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) Statuettes

Iraq, ca. 2,700 BCE

Found in a cemetery, all carrying beakers. Discovered in 1934, Cemetery of Ur

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Standard of Ur

Royal Cemetery. Ur, Iraq.

ca. 2,600 BCE

peaceful/violent side of the mosaic

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Bull-Headed Lyre

"Kings Grave", Ur, Iraq.

ca. 2,600 BCE

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Banquet Scene

Cylinder seal, from the tomb of Pu-abi, Royal Cemetery. Ur, Iraq

ca. 2,600 BCE

2" high

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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Susa, Iran ca. 2,254-2218 BCE

Pink sandstone, 6'7" high

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Ziggurat of Ur

Ur, Iraq ca. 2,100 BCE

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Statue of Gudea

Governor of Lagash

ca. 2,100 BCE

Diorite 2'5" high

Originally in a temple of Ningirsu holding the temple plan, taking orders from the Gods

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Stele of Hammurabi

Susa, Iran ca. 1,780 BCE

Basalt, 7'4" high

 

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Lion Gate

Hattusa, Turkey ca. 1,400 BCE

Symbolically gaurding the gateway.

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Lamassu

(winged human-headed bull)

Louvre, Paris

Limestone, 13'10" high

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Lion Hunt Relief

from the palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh

ca. 875-860 BCE

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Ishtar Gate
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Palete of Narmer

Egypt ca. 3,000 BCE

Slate 2'11" high 

Make-up palete

twiseted/composite perspective

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Stepped Pyramid

Djoser Saqqare, Egypt

ca. 2,630-2,611 BCE

460 x 388 ft, 197 ft high, 6 steps.

Designed by Imhotep

Elaborate anti-rooms and several entrances but only on opening to the tomb.

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Serdab Chamber

(on north side of pyramid) of Djoser

Hole that allows the ka to enter/leave the tomb and participate in feasts and activities.

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Great Pyramids

Gizeh, Egypt

(from bottom up: Menkaure, ca. 2,490 BCE; Khafre, ca. 2,520 BCE; and Khufu, ca. 2,551 BCE

Oriented to the East to the rising of the sun (Ra)

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Great Sphinx

Gizeh, Egypt ca. 2,520-2,494 BCE

Sandstone, 65' x 240'

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