Egyptian Gods
Akhenaten and Nefertiti are depicted on the Amara relief worshipping this god, identified with the Sun’s disc.
ATEN
The Prima Porta Augustus also depicts this later emperor receiving the eagle standards from a Parthian.
TIBERIUS
It’s any band of sculpture, whether of alternating triglyphs and metopes, or a continuous band like the one depicting the Panathenaic Procession.
a FRIEZE
It’s the date of the Battle of Actium, where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra, marking the end of the last Hellenistic kingdom.
31 BC
Polykleitos sculpted this statue, whose height is seven times its own head.
The DORYPHOROS
The Gilgamesh epic originated in this oldest of the Mesopotamian civilizations.
SUMERIA
The Temple complex at Karnak was primarily dedicated to this sun-god, though it also includes temples for his consort Mut and his son Khonsu.
AMUN (Amun-Re)
The Colosseum gets its name from a huge nearby statue made for this emperor, who constructed his Domus Aurea palace after the Great Fire in 64 AD.
NERO
The Erechtheion on the Athenian acropolis has these columns shaped like women.
CARYATIDS
Everything in Pompeii is older than this year, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in ash.
79 AD
This statue commemorates a naval victory between 306 and 154 BC, but nobody is sure which one. It is standing on a ship’s prow.
The NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE
The Lamassu of Sargon II and the lion hunt of Ashurbanipal are products of this fierce empire that ruled from the 9th to 7th centuries BC.
(NEO) ASSYRIANS
The Menkaure triad depicts the Pharaog with Hathor and a minor goddess representing on of these divisions of ancient Egypt.
a NOME
This emperor fancied himself something of an architect himself, and designed pumpkin domes for his villa at Tivoli.
HADRIAN
The markets of Trajan and the Pantheon both exhibit this type of filled-in arch, designed to take weight off windows or transfer it downward through a wall.
RELIEVING arches
It’s the date of the battle of Carchemish, when Nebuchadnezzar led his father’s forces to victory over Assyria and Egypt, marking the start of the Neo-Babylonian empire. (Answer within 10 years.)
605 BC
This temple was decorated with a frieze of Greeks fighting barbarians at the battle of Plataea in the second Persian War.
Temple of ATHENA NIKE
The Apadana or audience hall of Darius and Xerxes is a product of this last great empire of the ancient near east. It is decorated with winged depictions of Ahura-Mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism.
PERSIA
He’s the guide of the dead who takes Hu-Nefer down to the underworld to be judged. He has the head of a jackal.
ANUBIS
The Basilica Ulpia is named for this emperor, whose conquest of the Dacians is depicted on the spiraling relief sculpture of his nearby column.
TRAJAN
These high openings let in light to the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak.
CLERESTORY windows
This year marks the start of the Flavian Dynasty that built the Colosseum, as well as the end of three short reigns of other emperors.
69 AD
Clytius, Otos, Tityos, Porphyrion, and Alcyoneus are the bad guys being vanquished by Athena, Zeus, Artemis, Apollo, and Ares on the frieze of this building.
ALTAR of PERGAMUM
The Stele of Naram-Sin depicts a victory by the second ruler of this empire, founded by Sargon the Great.
AKKADIAN
This green-skinned god was killed by Set, but resurrected with by his wife Isis with the help of Nephthys.
OSIRIS
The plundering of the temple in Jerusalem is depicted on a triumphal arch dedicated to this last Flavian emperor.
TITUS
These are the huge fortified gates of the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak.
PYLONS
It’s the date usually given for the start of Egypt’s New Kingdom.
1550 BC
These are the three sculptors of the Laocoön group, who are also credited with the Sperlonga statues from the grotto of Tiberius.
POLYDORUS, ATHENODORUS, and HAGESANDER of Rhodes
He brought nearly all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule and promoted the worship of Marduk, though the sun god Shamash is the one depicted giving him laws.
HAMMURABI