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Woman from Willendorf
- Austria
- c. 24,000 BCE
- limestone |
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Wall painting with horses
- rhinoceros, and aurochs
- Chauvet Cave
- France
- c. 32,000-30,000 BCE
- paint on limestone |
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Bison
- Le Tuc d’Audobert
- France
- c. 13,000 BCE
- unbaked clay |
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Stonehenge
- Salisbury Plain
- England
- c. 2900-1500 BCE
- bluestone and sarsen megaliths |
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Figures of a Woman and a Man
- from Cernavoda
- Romania
- c. 4500 BCE
- ceramic |
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Stele of Naram-Sin
- from Sippar
- Iraq (Mesopotamia)
- 23rd cent. BCE
- limestone relief |
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Twelve Votive figures
- Tell Asmar
- Iraq (Mesopotamia)
- c. 2900-2600 BCE
- limestone, alabaster, and gypsum |
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Nanna Ziggurat
- Ur, Iraq (Mesopotamia)
- c. 21st cent. BCE
- brick |
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Stele of Hammurabi
- probably from Sippar
- Iraq (Mesopotamia)
- 18th cent BCE
- basalt |
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Assurnasirpal II killing lions
- Nimrud
- Iraq (Assyria)
- 9th cent. BCE
- alabaster relief |
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Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute
- Persepolis
- Iran (Persia)
- 5th cent. BCE
- limestone relief |
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Funerary mask of Tutankhamun
- Tomb of Tutankhamun
- Valley of the Kings
- Egypt
- 14th cent. BCE
- gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones |
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Palette of Narmer
- Hierakonpolis
- Egypt
- 30th cent. BCE
- green schist |
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Great pyramids
- Giza
- Egypt
- 26th-25th cent. BCE
- limestone and granite |
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Menkaure and a Queen
- Giza
- Egypt
- 25th cent. BCE
- painted greywacke |
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Akhenaten and his family
- Tell el-Amarna
- Egypt
- 14th cent. BCE
- painted limestone relief |
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Nefertiti
- Thutmose (artist)
- Tell el-Amarna
- Egypt
- 14th cent. BCE
- painted limestone |
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Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris from Book of the Dead
- Egypt
- 13th cent. BCE
- painted papyrus |
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Figure of a woman
- Cyclades
- c. 2600-2400 BCE
- marble |
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Bull leaping
- Knossos
- Crete
- 15th-14th cent. BCE
- fresco |
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Funerary mask (“Mask of Agamemnon”)
- Mycenae
- Greece
- 16th cent. BCE
- gold |
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Corbel vault
- interior of tholos (“Treasury of Atreus”)
- Mycenae
- Greece
- 13th cent. BCE
- limestone |
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Funerary krater
- Dipylon Cemetery
- Athens
- Greece
- 8th cent. BCE
- ceramic |
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Anavysos Kouros
- near Athens
- Greece
- 6th cent. BCE
- painted marble |
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“Peplos” Kore
- Akropolis
- Athens, Greece
- 6th cent. BCE
- painted marble
- goddess once adorned in gold and jewels |
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Parthenon
- Kallikrates and Iktinos (architects)
- Akropolis
- Athens
- Greece
- 5th cent. BCE
- painted marble |
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Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)
- Polykleitos (artist)
- Roman copy of a Greek original
- original 5th cent. BCE
- marble (originally bronze) |
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Laocoon and his sons
- Hagesandros
- Polydoros, and Athenodoros (artists)
- either Rhodes, Greece or Rome, Italy
- 1st cent. BCE or 1st cent. CE
- marble |
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Nike of Samothrace (“Winged Victory”)
- Samothrace
- Greece
- 2nd cent. BCE
- marble |
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Reclining couple on a sarcophagus
- Cerveteri, Italy
- 6th cent. BCE
- terracotta |
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Patrician carrying portrait busts of two ancestors
- Rome, Italy
- 1st cent. BCE or 1st cent. CE
- marble |
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Augustus of Primaporta
- Primaporta, Italy
- 1st cent. BCE
- painted marble |
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Imperial procession
- Ara Pacis Augustae
- Rome, Italy
- 1st cent. BCE
- marble |
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Portrait of a Married Couple
- Pompeii, Italy
- 1st cent. CE
- wall painting |
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Arch of Titus
- Rome, Italy
- 1st cent. CE
- concrete and marble |
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