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Sumerian Babylonian Assyrian Persian Egyptian Iraq, Iran, Egypt 3500 BCE - 331 BCE
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SumerianBabylonianAssyrianPersianEgyptianIraq, Iran, Egypt3500 BCE - 331 BCE
Enduring Understandings• Mostly takes place in Mesopotamian city-states• Foundations of Art History• Where almost everything began: writing, cities, organized
religion, government, laws, agriculture, bronze casting, wheel.• Populations emerged between Tigris & Euphrates rivers.• Layering of civilizations• Egyptian art is created around ideas concerning eternity,
afterlife and rebirth• Egyptian art is dominated by funerary objects.• Egyptian stylistic formulas are applied to gods and pharaohs,
showing others to be subordinate, lacking idealization• Egypt begins in the unification of country under King Narmer• “Old Kingdom” features massive monuments (pyramids) to the
dead.
Egyptian Understandings…• Menhotep II unified Egypt for a second time in a period called
“Middle Kingdom”
White Temple and its ziggurat 3500-3000 BCE
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Mud Brick Sumerian - Uruk, Iraq
Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshunna
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C. 2700 BCE Gypsum inlaid with shell & black limestoneSumerian - Tell Asmar, Iraq
Standard of Ur 2600-2400BCE
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Wood inlaid with shell, laps lazuli, and limestoneSumerian
Stele of Hammurabi c. 1792-1750 BCE
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BasaltBabylonian
Lamassu c. 720-705 BCE
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AlabasterAssyrian
Persepolis c. 520-465 BCE
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LimestonePersian - Iran
Narmer Palette 3000-2920 BCE – Slate
Cairo
Seated Scribe c. 2620-2500 BCE
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Painted LimestoneEgypt
Great Pyramids 2550-2490 BCE - Limestone
Giza, Egypt
Great Sphinx
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c. 2500 BCE – LimestoneGiza, Egypt
Menkaura and His Queen
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2490-2472 BCE - Greywacke
Temple of Amun-Re & Hypostyle Hall1550-1250 BCE - Sandstone & Mudbrick
Luxor, Egypt
Plan of Temple of Amun-Re & Hypostyle Hall
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
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1473-1458 BCE – SandstoneLuxor, Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars
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1473 – 1458 BCE - Red Granite
Akhenaton, Nefertiti and Three Daughters
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1353 – 1335 BCE - Limestone
Innermost Coffin of King Tutankhamun
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c. 1323 BCE - gold, enamel, semiprecious stonesCairo, Egypt
Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer c. 1275 – painted papyrus scroll
