Test 1

Question 1

Answer 1

Name: Venus of Willendorf

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: Symbol of fertility, synthetic magic, exaggerated female form, function still unknown

Question 2

Answer 2

Name: Venus of Laussel

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: fertility figure, bullhorn

Question 3

Answer 3

Name: Bison with Turned Head

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: spearthrower used for hunting, representing the animal hunting

Question 4

Answer 4

Name: Two Bison

Location: Cave of Le Tuc d’Audoubert

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: the figures are found deep in the caves so few actually saw them, most likely for the gods

Question 5

Answer 5

Name: Hands

Location: Altamira, Spain

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: the hand outlines are shown with fingers missing indicating they might have been using it as a type of language

Question 6

Answer 6

Name: Bison

Location: Altamira, Spain

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: Follows the contours of the cave making it almost a relief sculpture and depicts the bison realistically

Answer 7

Name: Wounded Bison

Location: Altamira, Spain

Period: Paleolithic

Significance:

Question 8

Answer 8

Name: Hall of Bulls,Lascaux

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: Composite perspective, closed off to public to preserve, Very Large

Question 9

Answer 9

Name: Chinese Horse, Lascaux

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: hunting arrows, resembles Chinese watercolor

Question 10

Answer 10

Name: Aurochs, Horses and Rhinoceroses, Chauvet Cave

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: Narrative, fighting bull, profile perspective, composite

Question 11

Answer 11

Name: Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Disembowled Bison,Lascaux

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: Man shown with bird head, ritualistic for hunting or animal worship

Question 12

Answer 12

Name: Sorcerer Cave, Trois Freres

Period: Paleolithic

Significance: Half man half animal

Question 13

Answer 13

Name: Marching Warriors, Cingle de la Mola

Period: Mesolithic

Significance: Shows man in war

Question 14

Answer 14

Name: Stonehenge

Built by the Beaker people

Period: Neolithic

Significance: oriented around Winter Solstice, calendar, nature worship, megalithic structure, cromlean (huge circle), Post-lintel architecture based upon gravity

Question 15

Answer 15

Name: Avebury Circle

Period: Neolithic

Significance: another lesser known stonehenge

Question 16

Answer 16

Name: Grange Stone Circle, Ir

Period: Neolithic

Significance: another stonehenge

Question 17

Answer 17

Name: Great stone tower, Jericho

Period: Neolithic

Significance: 1st village, burn marks, biblical importance

Question 18

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Name: Landscape with volcanic eruption (?), Çatal Höyük

Period: Neolithic

Significance: volcanic eruption, 1st landscape art

Question 19

Answer 19

Name: White Temple and ziggurat

Period: Sumerian

Significance: place of worship, mestabas

Question 20

Answer 20

Name: Female head (Inanna?)

Period: Sumerian

Significance: Sumerian god of love and war, most important goddess in Mesopotamia, inlayed with precious stone

Question 21

Answer 21

Name: Ziggurat

Period: Neo-Sumerian

Significance: Tower of Babel, votive figures found inside

Question 22

Answer 22

Name: Tellasmar Votive Figures

Period: Neo-Sumerian

Significance: worshipers to pray to the Gods at all times, cylinderical, big round eyes were the windows to the soul, stylized beard

Question 23

Answer 23

Name: Epic of Creation

Content: Cuneiform document

Significance: Gilgamesh, 1st story of creation

Question 24

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Name: Flood Tablet

Content: Cuneiform document

Question 25

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Name: Cylinder Seals Period: Sumerian Significance: Banquet scene, composite view, social hierarchy, most are animal oriented

Question 26

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Name: Standard of Ur Period: Sumerian Significance: Peace/ War sides, conceptual composite, king upper left, scale important people shown larger, attempt to show depth

Question 27

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Name: Soundbox of Lyre of Puabil Period: Sumerian Significance: animals symbolic, doing human things, epic of gilgamesh

Question 28

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Name: Head of an Akkadian ruler Period: Akkadian Significance: eyes destroyed purposely, stylized beard, invaded the SUmerians, kings were the most important

Question 29

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Name: Victory stele of Naram-Sin Period: Akkadian Significance: crown of horns, narrative victory over enemies, first landscape, attempt at realism

Question 30

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Name: Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan Period: Neo-Sumerian SIgnificance: Gods told him to rebuild temples, brought back city-states, overflowing cup symbolizes abundance, very precious

Question 31

Answer 31

Name: Hammurabi’s Law Code Period: Babylonian Significance: extensive/ strict laws cuneiform writing, Hammurabi on left, shamash on right

Question 32

Answer 32

Name: Reconstruction drawing of the citadel of Sargon II Significance:

Question 33

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Name: Ashurbanipal II Being Attacked By a Lion Period: Assyrian Significance: Killing lions was a manly royal virtue equal to victory in warfare

Question 34

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Name: Hunting Scene Ashirbanipal Period: Assyrian Significance: The hunt was a common subject of Assyrian palace reliefs, killing lions was an impressive feat

Question 35

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Name: Assyrian archers pursuing enemies Period: Assyrian Significance: Ashurnasirpal drove his enemys forces into the Euphrates river, compression of the scene, artists purpose to tell story clearly and concisely

Question 36

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Name: Lamassu, citadel of Sargon II Period: Assyrian Significance: Ancient sculptors insisted on a full view of animals, composite perspective, guarded the Assyrian palace

Question 37

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Name: Dying Lioness Period: Assyrian Significance: Lion hunts common for a royal activity

Question 38

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Name: Ishtar Gate (restored) Period: Neo-Babylonian Significance: Nebuchadnezzar IIs Babylon was one of the ancient worlds greatest cities, this gate was one of the seven wonders of the world

Question 39

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Name:Processional frieze (detail) on the terrace of the apadana, Period: Archaemenid Significance: Depicted representatives of 23 nations bringing tribute to the Persian King

Question 40

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Name: Rosetta Stone Period:? Significance: key to understanding language, info on who gets what in the temple, 1st section is hieroglyphics, 2nd demotics, 3rd Greek

Question 41

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Name: Palette of Narmar Period: Late Dynastic Significance: for makeup, combo of function and style, Narmer is large fig., papyrus and vutlture rep. Lower Egypt, lotus and cobra rep. Upper Egypt, horned god Hathor, 2 long necked animals show unity

Question 42

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Name: Section (top), plan (center),and restored view (bottom) of typical Egyptian mastaba tombs.

Question 43

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Artist: IMHOTEP Name: Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser Period: Early dynastic Significance: 1st name known in architecture, similar form to Mesopotamia, columns influenced Greeks, funerary complex

Answer 44

Name:Great Pyramids of Gizeh (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu) Period: Old Kingdom Significance: discovered a large city next to pyramids, built as a public project, labor as tax, Rah the sun god lived inside Pyramid, magical poswers in the shape, pharoah entombed within after mummification, 8 wonders of the world

Question 45

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Name: Fowling Scene Period: New Kingdom Significance: Nebamun's wife and daughter accompany him on his hunt for fowl, enjoying recreation in his eternal afterlife

Question 46

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Name: Sunboat Period: New Kingdom. Significance: Egyptians thought the sun boat took you into the afterlife, sun god Re

Question 47

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Name: Book of the Dead Period: New Kingdom Significance: contained spells and prayers, weighing of Hunifer's heart against a feather before Osiris

Question 48

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Name: Mummy of Ramses II Period: New Kingdom Significance: built big temple in honor of his patron god and after death for his own worship

Question 49

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Name: Canopic Jars Significance: used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife

Question 50

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Name: Menkaure and Khamerernebty Period: Old Kingdom Significance: displays conventional postures, high relief scuplture, frozen gestures indicate marriage

Question 51

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Name: Prince Rahotep and Wife Period: Old Kingdom Significance: subtractive method

Question 52

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Name: Ka-Aper Period: Old Kingdom Significance: Obesity characterized many nonroyal male Old Kingdom portraits

Question 53

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Name: Seated Scribe Period: Old Kingdom Significance: idealism did not extend to the portrayal of non-elite individuals, more realistic portrait with signs of aging

Question 54

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Name: Nilometer Period: Significance:

Question 55

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Name: Great Sphinx Period: Old Kingdom Significance: some scholars think it portrays Khufu, lion with human head associated with sun god, composite form

Question 56

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Name: Rock-cut tombs Beni Hasan Period: Middle Kingdom Significance: fluted column shafts, hollowed out cliffs, characteristic of Middle Kingdom

Question 57

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Name: Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Period: New Kingdom Significance: woman who became king because her son the heir was too young, after death son sought revenge and destroyed all statues and monuments

Question 58

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Name: Temple of Amon-Re Period: New Kingdom Significance: bilateral symmetry, columns hieroglyphics for prayer to gods, clerestory windows, hypostyle hall

Question 59

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Name: Cartoosh Period: New Kingdom Significance: the signature of the pharoah

Question 60

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Name: Temple of Amun (Pylon and Court of Ramesses II) also known as Temple at Luxor Period: New Kingdom Significance: obelisks are in different parts of the world, columns are lotus blossoms, unity of upper and lower Egypt

Question 61

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Name: Akhenaton Period: Amarna Significance: Androgenous figure is a deliberate reaction against tradition, attempt to portray the pharoah as Aton, the sexless sun disk

Question 62

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Name: Nefertiti Period: Amarna Significance: Akhenton's influential wife, elegant beauty with exaggerated long neck

Question 63

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Name: King Tut on Lotus Blossom Period: Post-Amarna Significance: Wooden, only pharoah whose mummy left in tomb, died young

Question 64

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Name: Akhenaton at Temple of Aton Period: Amarna Significance: very informal scene, family shown in weird proportion, sun god radiating with cobra

Answer 65

Name: King Tut’s Tomb; Selket (Scorpion Goddess) Period: Post- Amarna Significance: golden figures put into tomb for protection and blessing in the afterlife

Question 66

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Name: King Tut Death Mask (Innermost Coffin) Period: Post- Amarna Significance: Gold inlay with stones, amazing goldsmiths, idealized feautres and cobra headdress

Question 67

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Name: Temple of Ramses II; Abu Simbel Period: New Kingdom Significance: 60s had to be moved for Aswan dam, rock cut images of Ramses II, mortuary temple, inside himself dressed as Osiris, during solstice light fills the back corridor