Small Ancient Cultures
Donor figures paid for these Sumerian "worshipper statues" to be their stand-in to offer prayers to the God Abu and were later buried with their donors.
What are the "Votive Figures from the Square Temple at Eshnunna?"
Organized in registers left to right, this relief carving in stone uses hierarchical scale to show an individual's importance and was found in a deposit of "grave goods."
What is "Palette of Narmer?"
The statue of "Doryphoros" at 6 feet, 11 inches high, in perfect contrapposto exemplifies the Roman's interest in creating a perfect human form through which means?
This statue of a young woman was once thought to be a grave marker but historians believe it was meant to honor the God Artemis or Athena, holding a bow and arrow in her hands.
What is "Peplos Kore?"
What is the purpose of the oculus in the Pantheon?
What is to allow light to enter the dimly lit interior/create a sundial/manifest heaven within the Earthly space?
Inspired by Greek temples, this structure has steps, a deep porch and Tuscan columns decorating the front.
What is "Temple of Minerva?"
This painted limestone sculpture's main purpose was to commemorate a highly regarded subject and aid in his transcendence into the afterlife.
What is the "Seated Scribe?"
"Head of a Roman Patrician" shows a Roman aristocrat with seriousness and in a naturalistic style also known as...
What is "hyper-realism" or "verism?"
This naturalistic marble sculpture of an ideal male youth, stood over the grave of an individual that died in battle.
What is "Anavysos Kouros?"
Small glass tiles arranged close together with grout.
What is a mosaic?
The "Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II" is from which ancient culture?
What is Neo-Assyrian?
The main temple of this site has two axes, one N/S, one E/W and a hypostyle hall with 134 columns.
What is the "Temple of Amun-Re?"
Communicating the emperor's power and ideology as an orator and general, "Augustus of Prima Porta's" main theme would be considered...
What is "Propaganda?"
Found at the base of the Acropolis, this public space exemplified the idea of experimental democracy and was the center of Athenian civic life.
"Winged Victory of Samothrace" is considered this style of Greek sculpture.
What is Hellenistic?
This tall, black Babylonian stele made from basalt includes the cultural laws for a civilization including "an eye for an eye..."
What is the "Code of Hammurabi?"
In this New Kingdom, Amarna period limestone plaque made for a private, house altar, a husband and wife worship a new God, Aton.
What is "Akhenaton, Nefertiti and 3 daughters?"
This stone and concrete structure, with three stories of arches and one of windows is also known as the "Flavian Ampitheater."
What is the Colosseum?
This Hellenistic bronze sculpture with its informal body language and incredible musculature engages the viewer emotionally to show "pathos."
What is "Seated Boxer?"
The Parthenon contains columns with "entasis" which means this.
What is they bulge at the middle, fooling the eye.
The "Standard of Ur," a Sumerian work, is thought to have served this function.
What is unknown/held like a flag on a pole during war/music box?
"The Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer," from the Book of the Dead is painted on a papyrus scroll, and is organized in this very particular Egyptian style...
What are registers?
The 22 vertical sections depicted on Trajan's Column tell the story of what events?
What is the story of Trajan's military preparedness, exploits and the defeat of the Dacians?
This technique was used on the Niobides Krater to showcase modeled bodies against a dark background.
What is the red-figure technique?
The "House of the Vettii" in Pompeii, Italy contains this style of wall paintings.
What is 4th-style wall paintings that look like galleries with frames?