ANE Pre-History
The period before Sumerian culture took over Mesopotamia.
What is Ubaid?
What is the Old Kingdom?
2288 BCE
What is the Accession of Sargon of Akkad.
3rd-millennium site where thousands of texts were found in an indigenous Semitic language.
What is Ebla?
Two things to look for when "reading" and ANE image/icon.
What are 'symbols' and syntax?
The process of CULTURAL unification of Egypt.
What is Naqadization?
Ruler who built the first true Egyptian (stepped) pyramid?
Who is Djoser?
Period that saw the rise of truly "large" city-states in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Uruk period?
Ruler of Byblos who left a coffin inscription in Phoenician, one of the earliest exemplars of this language.
Ahiram/Ahirom
Modern Assyriologist who argues that "symbols" and characters in ANE iconography are not mere representations, but actually carry the presence of the thing they depict.
Zainab Bahrani
Last period of pre-history in Mesopotamia, where we first start to see the appearance of writing.
What is Uruk III.
Three Egyptian periods that come in-between the three major "kingdoms."
What are the three intermediate periods?
Two major empires vying for control of Mesopotamia throughout the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE.
What are Assyria and Babylon?
Dates between which we texts were written in Ugaritic.
What is 1400-1200?
Particular iconographic trope that identifies deities in both Mesopotamian and Egyptian iconography.
What is the crown? Bonus point: Name one Mesopotamian and one Egyptian kind of deity crown?
3500-3100 BCE (Period)
What is the Late Uruk Period?
Egyptian period with only a single king who converted Egyptian religion to worship solely the deity Aten, moved the Egyptian capital, and changed his own name to Akhenaten.
What is the Amarna Period?
The most well-preserved copy of the Sumerian King List, found in Larsa.
What is the Weld-Blundell Prism?
Location where early alphabetic texts begin to emerge in the "Proto-Canaanite" or "Early Alphabetic" language?
Where is Sinai?
Female-style figurines from Iron Age Syro-Palestine, especially Jerusalem, that may depict a goddess.
What are JPFs?
What is Eridu?
Rulers of Egypt from 1700-1550 BCE.
Hyksos
Culture that conquered Mesopotamia and Syro-Palestine in the mid-1st millennium BCE.
Who are the Neo-Babylonians?
Year of the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
When is 1177 BCE?
Symbol in Egyptian iconography that symbolizes life and healing.
Hint: this symbol is held by hands extending from the sun in Amarna-period art.