Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean

White Temple and its ziggurat. Uruk, Iraq. Sumerian. Mud Brick

Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c.3000-2920 BCE. Graywacke.

Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple of eshnunna. Sumerian. c.2700 BCE. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

Seated Scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty. c.2620-2500 BCE. Painted limestone.

Standard of Ur form the Royal Tombs at Ur. Sumerian. c.2600-2400 BCE. Wood inlaid with shell, pais lazuli, and red limestone.

Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty. c.2550-2490 BCE. Cut Limestone.

King Menkaura and queen. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty. c.2490-2472 BCE. Graywacke.

The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (modern Iran). Susian. c.1792-1750 BCE. Basalt.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple: c. 1550 BCE; hall: c.1250 BCE. Cut sandstone and mud brick.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. New Kingdom, 18th dynasty. c. 1473-1458 BCE. Sandstone, partially carved into rock cliff, red granite.

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Armana), 18th dynasty. c. 1353-1335 BCE Limestone.

Tutankhamen’s tomb, innermost coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. C. 1323 BCE.

Last Judgement of Hunefer, from his tomb. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, c. 1275 BCE. Painted papyrus scroll.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin, Neo-Assyrian. c.720-705. Painted papyrus scroll.

Athenian agora. Archaic through Hellenistic Greek. 600 BCE-150 CE Plan.

Anavysos Kouros. Archaic Greek. c. 530 BCE. Marble with remanent of paint.

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis. Archaic greek. c. 530 BCE. Marble, painted details.

Sarcophagus of the Spouses. Etruscan. c. 520 BCE. Terra cotta.

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes. Persepolis, Iran. Persian. c. 520-465 BCE. Limestone.

Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo. Master sculptor Vulca. c. 510-500 BCE. Original temple of wood, mud brick, and tufa. terra cotta sculpture.

Tomb of the Triclinium. Tarquinia, Italy. Etruscan. c. 480-470 BCE. Tufa and fresco.

Niobides Krater. c. 460-450 BCE. Clay, red-figure technique, white highlights.

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Polykleitos. Original 450-440 BCE. (Roman Copy)

Acropolis . Athens, Greece. Ikinos and Kallikrates, c.447-410 BCE, marble.

Grave stele of Hegeso. Attributed to Kallimachos. c. 410 BCE, marble and paint

Winged Victory of Samothrace. Hellenistic Greek, c. 190 BCE. Marble.

Great Alter of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). hellenistic Greek. c.175 BCE. Marble.

House of the Vettii. Pompeii. Republican Roman. c.100 BCE. Mosaic.

Alexander Mosaic form the House of Faun, Pompeii. Republican Roman. c.100 BCE. Mosaic.

Seated Boxer. Hellenistic Greek. c.100 BCE. Bronze

Augustus of Prima Porta. Imperial Roman. C.75-50 BCE. Marble.

Colosseum. Rome, Italy. Imperial Roman. 70-80 CE. Stone and Concrete.

Forum of Trajan. Rome, Italy. Apollodorus of Damascus.

Pantheon. Imperial Roman. 118-125 CE. Concrete with stone facing.

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophogus. Late Imperial Roman. c.250 CE. Marble.