Ancient Near East
General Information
General Information
These are three things that began in the Ancient Near East.
What are:
writing organized government
cities laws
organized religion the wheel
agriculture bronze casting
This architectural feature is known for its massive, tapered, trapezoidal towers flanking a central doorway.
What are pylons?
This artwork commemorates the unification of Egypt.
What is the Palette of Narmer?
These sculptures often had inscriptions on the back that mentioned names of donors or gods.
What are Statues of Votive Figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna?
In Code of Hammurabi, Shamash is shown handing Hammurabi these items.
What are a ring, a rope, and a scepter?
The Ancient Near East was different from the Prehistoric Period - we know this. What are two ways the Ancient Near East was different when it came to the artwork?
What are:
depicted clothed humans
humans were doing something
humans were anatomically accurate
sculpture was monumental not portable
The White Temple and its ziggurat has these architectural items - they are spaced across the surface to create a light and shadow pattern.
What are buttresses?
This was history's first recorded artist.
Who was Imhotep?
This artifact reflected an extensive trading network as it contained lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, shells from the Persian Gulf, and red limestone from India.
What is the Standard of Ur?
The Seated Scribe is shown cross-legged on the ground. What is the symbolism shown by this portrayal?
What is that the scribe is not of the same station as the king - is of lower status.
This southern Mesopotamian city perfected irrigation and administrative systems.
What is Uruk?
This guardian figure, winged and with 5 legs, is actually a structural support meant to hold up the walls and arch of a gate.
What are lamassu?
These functional sculptures were hewn from enormous stones and placed in tombs to protect the dead from vandals.
What are sarcophagi?
This artifact was carved insitu from a huge rock and originally colorfully painted.
What is the Great Sphinx?
In the Pyramid texts, it is said that these are like a ladder to the heavens.
What are the sun's rays?
The chief priest of Innana served as political leader which made Uruk the first known of this type of government.
What is a theocracy?
This funerary complex is said to have possibly served as the king's palace in the afterlife.
What are the Great Pyramids?
Egyptian sculptors often used this material from Memphis.
What is limestone?
This sculpture, made of Greywacke, is actually unfinished and is missing details in the headdress and kilt.
What is King Menkaura and queen?
These are the keepers of Hu-Nefer's internal organs.
What are canopic jars?
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Who are Horus' 4 children who represent the cardinal points?
This structure in a city was the central point of both civic and religious pride.
What is the temple?
This mortuary temple was never used as a royal burial spot, but was used for special religious events.
What is the Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut?
This sculpture was created for a tomb at Saqqara and was not presented in the typical Egyptian style we recognize.
What is the Seated Scribe?
The complex that houses this temple is adjacent to an artificial sacred lake- a symbol of sacred waters of the world that existed before time.
What is the Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall?
An ankh is an Egyptian symbol of this.
What is life?