Quiz 1 Art Works

Question 1

Spotted Hoses and Human Hands

Answer 1

Pech Merle Cave
Dordogne, France
25,000-24,000 BCE
Hands- 15,000 BCE
Paint on limestone
5' length
Made by Shamen

Question 2

Woman from Willendorf

Answer 2

Austria
24,000 BCE
Limestone
4 3/4 Inches
May represent fertility 
covered in red ocher

Question 3

Woman from Brassempouy

Answer 3

France
30,000 BCE
Ivory
1 1/2 inch
grid for hair

Question 4

Hall of Bulls

Answer 4

Lascaux Caves, Dordogne, France
15,000 BCE
Paint on Limestone
18 feet

Question 5

Bird Headed man with Bison

Answer 5

Lascaux Cave
15,000 BCE
paint on limestone
9’

Question 6

Bison

Answer 6

Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France
13,000
Unbaked Clay
25” (2 feet)

Question 7

Stonehenge

Answer 7

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
c2,750 BCE
Burial Site?

Question 8

Stele of Naram-Sin

Answer 8

found at Susa
2254-2218 BCE
Limestone
6’6

Question 9

Nanna Ziggurat

Answer 9

Ur (Iraq)
c 2100BCE
mud-brick

Question 10

Votive Figures

Answer 10

Square Temple, Eshnunna
2900-2600 BCE
limestone, alabaster and gypsum
tallest 30”

Question 11

Great Lyre with Bull’s Head

Answer 11

royal tomb, Ur
2600-2500 BCE
Wood with Gold, silver, lapis,
head- 14"
front pannel- 13" 
displays Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 12

Head of man known as Akkadian Ruler

Answer 12

Sargon?
from Nineveh
2300-2200 BCE
copper alloy
14 3/8"

Question 13

Stele of Hammurabi

Answer 13

from Susa
1792-1750 BCE
Diorite
7'
releif 28" 
relief of hammurabi with god Shamash

Question 14

Reconstruction (palace complex of Sargon II)

Answer 14

Khorsabad
721 BCE
irshtar gate entrance

Question 15

Ishtar Gate

Answer 15

Babylon
575 BCE
Glazed brick- to resemble Lapis
40’

Question 16

Apadana (Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes

Answer 16

Persepolis, Iran
518-460 BCE
relief of Darrius and Xerxes receiving tribute