Unit 2 Ancient Meditteranean 3,500 BCE-300 CE

Cards (36)

  • White Temple and its Ziggurat Uruk (modern day Iran) Sumerian 35,000-3,000 BCE Mud Brick
  • Palette of King Narmer Pre-dynastic Egypt 3,000 BCE Greywacke
  • Statue of Votive figures Sumerian 2,700 BCE Gypsum inland with shell and black limestone
  • Seated Scribe Egypt Old Kingdom 4th dynastic 2,620 BCE Painted limestone
  • Standard of Ur Sumerian 26,000 BCE Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
  • Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and the Great Sphinx Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty 2,550-2490 BCE Cut limestone
  • The code of Hammurabi Babylon (modern Iran) Susain 1792-1750 BCE Basalt
  • Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall Karnark, near Luxor Egypt New Kingdom 18th and 19th Dynasties Temple:1550 BCE; hall: 1250 BCE Cute sandstone and mud brick
  • Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three Daughters New Kingdom (Armana) 18th Dynastry c 1353-1335 BCE Limestone
  • King Menkaura and Queen Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty c. 2490 - 2472 BCE Greywacke
  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Near Luxor, Egypt New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty c. 1473-1458 BCE Sandstone
  • Tutankhamun's Tomb, intermost coffin New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty c. 1323 BCE Gold with inlay enamel and semiprecious stones
  • Last judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb New Kingdom 19th Dynasty c. 1275 BCE Painted papyrus scroll
  • Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II Dur Sharrukin, (modern Khorsabad, Iraq) Neo-Assyrian c. 702 - 705 BCE Alabaster
  • Athenian Agora Archiac through Hellenistic greek 600 BCE-150 CE Plan
  • Anavysos Kouros Archaic Greek 530 BCE Marble with remnants of paint
  • Peplos Kore from the Arcopolis Archiac Greek c. 530 BCE Marble and painted details
  • Sacrophagus of the Spouses Etruscan c. 520 BCE Terra Cotta
  • Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes Persepolis, Iran Persian c. 250 BCE material: Limestone
  • Temple of Minerva and Sculpture of Apollo Rome Italy Master sculptor Vulca c. 510-500 BCE materials: wood, mud brick, tufa, terra cotta
  • Tomb of the Triclinium Tarquinia, Italy Etruscan c. 480 - 470 BCE Tufa and fresco
  • Niobides Krater Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as Niobid Painter c. 460-450 BCE Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)
  • Doryphoros (spear bearer) Polykleitos Original 450 BCE Marble, Original bronze)
  • Acropolis Athens, Greece by: Iktinos and Kallikrates c. 447 - 424 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 and paint
  • Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) Hellenistic Greek c. 175 BCE Marble (architecture and sculpture)
  • House of Vettii Pompei, Italy Imperial Roman c. second century BCE, rebuilt c. 62-79 CE Cut stone and fresco
  • Alexander Mosaic House of Faun, Pompeii Republican Roman c. 100 BCE Mosaic
  • Seated Boxer Hellenistic Greek c. 100 BCE Bronze
  • Head of a Roman partician Republican Roman c. 75 - 50 BCE Marble
  • Augustus of Prima Porta Imperial Roman Early first century CE Marble
  • Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) Rome, Italy Imperial Roman 70-80 CE Stone and concrete
  • Forum of Trajan Rome, Italy Apollodorus of Damascus 106-113 CE Brick, concrete, marble
  • Pantheon Imperial Roman 118-125 CE Concrete with stone facing
  • Ludovisi Battle of Sacrophagus Late Imperial Roman c. 250 CE Marble