unit 2 (ancient mediterranean & egypt) identifiers

White Temple and its ziggurat

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq)

Sumerian

c. 3500-3000 BCE

Mud brick

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt

c. 3000-2920 BCE

Greywacke

Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)

Sumerian

c. 2700 BCE

Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Seated scribe

Saqqara, Egypt

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

c. 2620-2500 BCE

Painted limestone

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq)

Sumerian

c. 2600-2400 BCE

Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx

Giza, Egypt

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

c. 2550-2490 BCE

Cut limestone

King Menkaura and queen

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty

c. 2490-2472 BCE

Greywacke

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

Near Luxor, Egypt

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

c. 1473-1458 BCE

Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

New Kingdom (Amarna)

18th Dynasty

c. 1353-1335 BCE

Limestone

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

New Kingdom

18th Dynasty

c. 1323 BCE

Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

Last judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)

New Kingdom

19th Dynasty

c. 1275 BCE

Painted papyrus scroll

Lamassus from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)

Neo-Assyrian

c. 720-705 BCE

Alabaster

Athenian agora

Archaic through Hellenistic Greek

600 BCE-150 CE

plan

Anavysos Kouros

Archaic Greek

c. 530 BCE

Marble with remnants 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 (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran

Persian

c. 520-465 BCE

Limestone

Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo

Master sculptor Vulca

c. 510-500 BCE

Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock)

terra cotta sculpture

Tomb of the Triclinium

Tarquinia, Italy

Etruscan

c. 480-470 BCE

Tufa and fresco

niobides Krater

Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter

c. 460-450 BCE

Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

Polykleitos

Original 450-440 BCE

Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze)

Acropolis

Athens, Greece, Iktinos 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 Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

Asia Minor (present-day Turkey)

Hellenistic Greek

c. 175 BCE

Marble (architecture and sculpture)

House of the Vettii

Pompeii, Italy

Imperial Roman

c. 2nd century BCE

Rebuilt c. 62-79 CE

Cut stone and fresco

Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii

Republican Roman

c. 100 BCE

Mosaic

Seated Boxer

Hellenistic Greek

c. 100 BCE

Bronze

Head of a Roman patrician

Republican Roman

c. 75-50 BCE

Marble

Augustus of Prima Porta

Imperial Roman

Early 1st century CE

Marble

colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

Rome, Italy

Imperial Roman

c. 70-80 CE

Stone and concrete

Forum of Trajan

Rome, Italy

Apollodorus of Damascus

Forum and markets: 106-112 CE

column completed 113 CE

Brick and concrete (architecture); marble (column)

Pantheon

Imperial Roman

118-125 CE

Concrete with stone facing

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Late Imperial Roman

c. 250 CE

Marble