Exam I Flashcards
Title: Human with a Feline Head
Location: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
Period: Paleolithic
Year: ca. 30000-28000 BC
Medium: ivory
Title: Venus of Willendorf (Nude Woman)
Location: Willendorf, Austria
Period: Paleolithic
Year: ca. 28000-25000 BC
Medium: limestone
Title: Aurochs, Horses, and Rhinoceroses
Location: Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, France
Period: Paleolithic
Year: ca. 30,000-28,000 or 15,000 to 13,000 BC
Medium: wall and cave paintings
Title: Lascaux Caves
Location: France
Period: Paleolithic
Year: ca. 15000-13000 BC
Title: Hall of the Bulls
Location: Lascaux Caves
Period: Paleolithic
Year: ca. 15000-13000 BC
Medium: wall and ceiling paintings
Title: Statue of a Human Figure
Location: Ain Ghazal, Jordan
Period: Neolithic
Year: ca. 6750-6250 BC
Material: painted plaster and bitumen
Title: City of Jericho
Location: Jericho
Period: Neolithic
Year: ca. 8000-7000 BC
Medium: stone architecture
Title: Stonehenge
Location: Salisbury Plain, England
Period: Neolithic
Year: ca. 2550-1600 BC
Title: White Temple and Ziggurat
Location: Uruk (Warka)
Period: Sumerian
Year: ca. 3200-3100 BC
Title: Uruk (Warka) Vase
Location: Uruk
Period: Sumerian
Year: ca. 3500-3000 BC
Medium: alabaster
Title: Votive Statues from the Temple of Abu
Location: Tell Asmar
Period: Sumerian
Year: ca. 2900-2600 BC
Medium: stone: most are limestone or gypsum
Title: Lyre
Location: Ur
Period: Sumerian
Year: ca. 2600-2400 BC
Medium: gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell, bitumen and wood
Title: Standard of Ur
Location: Ur
Period: Sumerian
Year: ca. 2600-2400 BC
Medium: shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone
Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
Location: Susa
Period: Akkadian
Year: ca. 2250 BC
Medium: limestone
Title: Statue of Gudea
Location: Girsu (Tello)
Period: Neo-Sumerian
Year: ca. 2130 BC
Medium: diorite
Title: Stele with the Code of Hammurabi
Location: Susa
Period: Babylonian
Year: ca. 1792-1750 BC
Medium: basalt
Title: Lamassu
Location: the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad
Period: Assyrian
Year: dedicated 721-705 BC
Title: Relief of the Sacred Tree
Location: the Palace of Assurnasirpal at Nimrud
Period: Assyrian
Year: ca. 883-859 BC
Title: Lion Hunt Relief
Location: the Palace of Assurbanipal, Nineveh
Period: Assyrian
Year: ca. 668-627 BC
Title: Ishtar Gate
Location: Babylon
Period: Neo-Babylonian
Year: ca. 575 BC
Medium: glazed brick
Title: Apadana
Location: Persepolis
Period: Achaemenid Persian
Year: begun 518 BC
Title: Tribute Bearers Reliefs
Location: the Apadana at Persepolis
Period: Achaemenid Persian
Title: Palette of Narmer
Location: Hierakonpolis
Period: Pre-Dynastic
Year: ca.3100-2920 BC
Medium: schist
Architect: Imhotep
Title: Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Location: Saqqara
Period: Old Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 2630-2611 BC
Title: Funerary Complex
Location: Giza
Period: Old Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 2550-2470 BC
Title: Statue of Khafra (Chefren)
Location: from his Valley Temple at Giza
Period: Old Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 2520 BC
Medium: diorite-gneiss
Title: Painted relief of Ti hunting a hippopotamus
Location: Tomb of Ti at Saqqara
Period: Old Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 2400 BC
Title: Funerary Complex of Mentuhotep II (Nebhepetra Montuhotep)
Location: Deir el-Bahri
Period: Middle Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 2061-2010 BC
Title: Statue of Senwosret III (Sesostris or Senusret)
Location: Deir el-Bahri
Period: Middle Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1850 BC
Medium: black granite
Architect: Senmut
Title: Funerary Complex of Hatshepsut
Location: Deir el-Bahri
Period: New Kingdom
Year: ca. 1473-1458 BC
Title: Statues of Hatshepsut in female form
Location: Deir el Bahri
Period: New Kingdom
Year: ca. 1473-1458 BC
Title: Statues of Hatshepsut in male form
Location: Deir el Bahri
Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1473-1458 BC
Title: Stele of Akhenaten and his Family
Location: Tell el Amarna
Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1350-1335 BC
Medium: limestone
Title: Gold Throne from the Tomb of Tutankhamen
Location: Valley of the Kings
Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1333-23 BC
Title: Painted Chest from the Tomb of Tutankhamen
Location: Valley of the Kings
Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1333-23 BC
Title: Tutankhamun and his Wife
Location: from his Gold Throne from the Tomb of Tutankhamen, Valley of the Kings
Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1333-23 BC
Title: Temple of Ramses II
Location: Abu Simbel
Period: New Kingdom Egypt
Year: ca. 1290-1224 BC
