AP Art History Identifier Flashcards - Ancient Mediterranean (3,5000 BCE - 300 CE)

White temple and its Ziggurat

Sumerian

Iraq

3500-3000 BCE

Mud brick

Statues of Votive Figures

Sumerian

Iraq

2700 BCE

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

Sumerian

Iraq

2600-2400 BCE

Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

The Code Stele of Hammurabi

Susian

Babylon (modern Iran)

1792-1750 BCE

Basalt

Lamassu

Neo-Assyrian

Khorsabad, Iraq

720-705 BCE

Alabaster

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt

Egypt

3000-2920 BCE

Greywacke

Seated Scribe

Egyptian Old Kingdom

Saqqara, Egypt

2620-2500 BCE

Painted limestone

Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx

Egyptian Old Kingdom

Giza, Egypt

2550-2490 BCE

Cut limestone

King Menkaure and Queen

Egyptian Old Kingdom

Egypt

2490-2472 BCE

Greywacke

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Egyptian New Kingdom

Karnak, Egypt

Temple: 1550 BCE Hall: 1250 BCE

Cut sandstone and mud brick

Mortuary Temple of Hatsepshut

Egyptian New Kingdom

Near Luxor, Egypt

1473-1458 BCE

Sandstone, carved into cliff, and red granite

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

Egyptian New Kingdom

Amarna, Egypt

1353-1335 BCE

Limestone

Tutankhamun’s Tomb, innermost coffin

Egyptian New Kingdom

Egypt

1323 BCE

Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

Last Judgement of Hunefer (Book of the Dead)

Egyptian New Kingdom

Egypt

1275 BCE

Painted papyrus

Athenian Agora

Archaic through Hellenistic Greek

Greece

600 BCE-150 CE

Marble

Anavysos Kouros

Archaic Greek

Greece

530 BCE

Marble

Peplos Kore

Archaic Greek

Greece

530 BCE

Marble, painted details

Niobides Krater

Niobi Painter

Greece

460-450 BCE

Clay, red figure technique

Doryphorous (Spear-Bearer)

Polykleitos

Greece

450-440 BCE

Roman copy: marble Greek original: bronze

Acropolis

Iktinos and Kallikrates

Athens, Greece

447-410 BCE

Marble

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Attributed to Kallimachos

Greece

410 BCE

Marble and paint

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Hellenistic Greek

Greece

190 BCE

Marble

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

Hellenistic Greek

Present-day Turkey

175 BCE

Marble

Alexander Mosaic

Republican Roman

Pompeii, Italy

100 BCE
Mosaic

Seated Boxer

Hellenistic Greek

Greece

100 BCE

Bronze

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

Cerveteri, Italy

Etruscan

520 BCE

Terracotta

Temple of Minerva and Apollo Veii

Vulca

Near Rome, Italy

510-500 BCE

Temple: wood, mud brick, or tufa Sculpture: terracotta

Tomb of the Triclinium

Etruscan

Tarquinia, Italy

480-470 BCE

Tufa and paint

House of the Vettii

Imperial Roman

Pompeii, Italy

2nd century BCE

Cut sandstone and fresco

Head of a Roman Patrician

Republican Roman

Rome

75-50 BCE

Marble

Augustus of Prima Porta

Imperial Roman

Rome

1st century CE

Marble

Colosseum

Imperial Roman

Rome, Italy

70-80 CE

Stone and concrete

Forum and Markets of Trajan

Apollodorus of Damascus

Rome, Italy

106-112 CE

Architecture: brick and concrete Column: marble

Pantheon

Imperial Roman

Rome

118-125 CE

Concrete with stone facing

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Late Imperial Roman

Rome

250 CE

Marble