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Chapter 2 ~ Art of the Ancient Near East
Artist:
n/a
Title:
Human-Headed Winged Lion (Lamassu)
Medium:
Limestone
Size:
height 10'3½"
(3.11 m)
Date:
883–859 BCE
Source/Museum:
Colossal Gateway Figure,
Palace of
Assurnasirpal II,
Mesopotamia, Assyria, Kalhu (present-day
Nimrud,
Iraq).
/ The Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York. Gift of John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1932 (32.143.1.-2)
Artist: n/a
Title: The Ancient Near East
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Walls and tower, Jericho
Medium: Mud brick, rubble, stone
Size: n/a
Date: c. 8000–7000 BCE
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Composite Reconstruction Drawing
of Chatal Huyuk.
Anatolia (Present-Day Turkey). c.
6500–5500 BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Human Figure
Medium: Fired lime plaster with cowrie shell,
bitumen and paint
Size: height approx. 35" (90 cm)
Date: c. 7000–6000 BCE
Source/Museum: Ain Ghazal, Jordan/ National
Museum, Amman, Jordan
Artist: n/a
Title: Ruins of the White Temple
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE
Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq)
Artist: n/a
Title: Face of a woman, (known as the Warka Head)
Medium: Marble
Size: height approx. 8" (20.3 cm)
Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE
Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) /
Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003
Artist: n/a
Title: Photo of face of a woman (known as the
Warka Head)
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Displayed by Iraqi authorities on
its recovery
Artist: n/a
Title: Technique: Cuneiform Writing
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Carved vase (known as the Uruk Vase)
Medium: Alabaster
Size: height 36' (91 cm)
Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE
Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) /
Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in
2003)
Artist: n/a
Title: Votive Figures
Medium: Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
Size: height of largest figure approx. 30" ( 76.3
cm)
Date: c. 2900–2600 BCE
Source/Museum: The Square Temple, Eshnunna
(present-day Tell Asmar, Iraq). The Oriental Institute
of the University of Chicago
Artist: n/a
Title: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 2100–2050 BCE
Source/Museum: Present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq
Artist: n/a
Title: The Great Lyre with bull’s head
Medium: Wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli,
bitumen, and shell, reassembled in modern wood support
Size: height of head 14" (35.6 cm) height of
front panel 13" (33 cm) maximum length
of lyre 55½" (140 cm), height of upright back arm 46½"
(117 cm)
Date: c. 2550–2400 BCE
Source/Museum: Royal tomb, Ur (present-day
Muqaiyir, Iraq) / University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Artist: n/a
Title: Front panel, the sound box of the
Great Lyre
Medium: Wood with shell inlaid in bitumen
Size: height 12¼ X 4½" (31.1 X 11cm)
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Ur (present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq) /
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, Philadelphia (T4-29C)
Artist: n/a
Title: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its
impression
Medium: Lapis lazuli
Size: height, 1⅝" (4.1 cm)
Date: c. 2550–2400 BCE
Source/Museum: Ur (present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq) /
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, Philadelphia B16852
Artist: n/a
Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 6'6" (1.98 m)
Date: c. 2220–2184 BCE
Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Artist: n/a
Title: Head of a man (known as Akkadian
ruler)
Medium: Copper Alloy
Size: height 14⅜" (36.5 cm)
Date: c. 2300–2200 BCE
Source/Museum: Nineveh (present-day
Kuyunjik, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Artist: n/a
Title: Votive Statue of Gudea
Medium: Diorite
Size: height 29" (73.7 cm)
Date: c. 2090 BCE
Source/Museum: Girsu (present-day Telloh,
Iraq) / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Artist: n/a
Title: Stele of Hammurabi
Medium: Diorite
Size: height of stele approx. 7' (2.13 m)
height of relief 28“ (71.1 cm)
Date: c. 1792–1750 BCE
Source/Museum: Susa (present-day Shush,
Iran) /
Musée du Louvre, Paris
: n/a
Title: Lion Gate
Medium: Limestone
Size: n/a
Date: c. 1400 BCE
Source/Museum: Hattusha (near present-day
Boghazkoy, Turkey)
Artist: n/a
Title: Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions
Medium: Alabaster
Size: height approx. 39" (99.1 cm)
Date: c. 850 BCE
Source/Museum: Palace complex of
Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (present-day Nimrud,
Iraq) / The British Museum, London
Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction drawing of the
citadel and palace complex of Sargon II, Dur
Sharrukin (Present-Day Khorsabad, Iraq). C.
721–706 BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Courtesy the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago
Artist: n/a
Title: Assurbanipal and His Queen in
the Garden
Medium: Alabaster
Size: height approx. 21" (53.3 cm)
Date: c. 647 BCE
Source/Museum: The Palace at Nineveh
(present-day Kuyunjik, Iraq) / The British
Museum, London
Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction drawing of Babylon
in the 6th century BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Courtesy the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago
Artist: n/a
Title: Ishtar Gate and throne room
wall
Medium: Glazed brick
Size: height of gate originally 40 feet
(12.2 m) with towers rising 100 feet (30.5 m)
Date: c. 575 BCE
Source/Museum: Reconstructed in a Berlin
museum, originally from Babylon (Present-day
Iraq) Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Artist: n/a
Title: Air View of the ceremonial
complex, Persepolis
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 518–c. 460 BCE
Source/Museum: Iran
Artist: n/a
Title: Woman Spinning
Medium: Bitumen compound
Size: 3⅝" X 5⅛" (9.2 X 13 cm)
Date: c. 8th–7th century BCE
Source/Museum: Susa (present-day Shush,
Iran) /
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Artist: n/a
Title: Apadana (audience hall) of Darius
and Xerxes
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 518–c. 460 BCE
Source/Museum: Ceremonial Complex,
Persepolis Iran
Artist: n/a
Title: Darius and Xerxes Receiving
Tribute
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 8'4" (2.54 m)
Date: 491–486 BCE
Source/Museum: Detail of a relief from
the stairway leading to the Apadana (ceremonial
complex), Persepolis, Iran / Courtesy the
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Artist: n/a
Title: Daric
Medium: Gold
Size: Diameter approximately 1/2"
(1.45cm)
Date: 4th century BCE
Source/Museum: A coin first minted under
Darius I of Persia / Heberden Coin Room,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Artist: n/a
Title: Technique: Coining Money
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Front of a gold coin
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 560–546 BCE
Source/Museum: First minted under
Croesus, king of Lydia / Heberden Coin Room,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Artist: n/a
Title: Back of a gold coin
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 560–546 BCE
Source/Museum: First minted under Croesus, king
of Lydia / Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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