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Chapter 2
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
theocratic
polytheistic
propitiate
shrine
cuneiform
iconography
cone mosaics
stele
registers
relief
convention
stylization
inlaid
composite
profile
frontal
isometric
inlaid
cylinder seal
incised
glyptic art
votive figure
hierarchical
proportions
dynasty
attribute
anthropomorphic
cult
Architecture
fortified
mud brick
facing
ziggurat
load-bearing
citadel
fortification
cella
altar
column
capital
base
shaft
impost block
Cyclopaean
masonry
elevation
plinth
Apadana
Chronology of Ancient Near East and Principal Sites
Neolithic Era (c. 9000-4500/4000 BCE) ..............…. Jericho; Çatal Hüyük
Mesopotamia…………………………………………. modern Iraq
Uruk (c. 3500-3100BCE)………………. Uruk
Sumer…………………………………… Sumer
Early Dynastic (c.2800-2300 BCE)….. Tell Asmar; Ur
Akkad (c.2300-2100 BCE)……………. Akkad
Neo-Sumerian (c.2150-1800 BCE)… Lagash
Babylon………………………………… Babylon
Old Babylonian (c.1830-1550 BCE)
Neo Babylonian (c. 612-539 BCE)
Assyrian Empire (c.1100-612 BCE)… Assur
Anatolia…………………………………………………. modern Turkey
Hittite Empire (c.1450-1200 BCE)…
Hattusas (modern Boghazköy)
Ancient Iran……………………………………………. modern Iran
Achaemenid Persia (539-331 BCE)… Persepolis (near modern Shiraz)
Scythian (c.800-550 BCE)…………………………… modern Russia and Ukraine
Neolithic plastered skull, from
Jericho, c. 7000 BCE
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Çatal Hüyük, Turkey
Anatolian goddess
giving birth from
Çatal Hüyük, Turkey
c. 6500-5700 BCE
baked clay
2
Cone mosaics, from Uruk,
Uruk period, c. 3500 BCE
Carved cult vase (Warka Vase),
from Uruk
Uruk period, c. 3500-3000 BCE
Alabaster; 36 inches
3
Carved cult vase (Warka Vase), from Uruk, details
Uruk period, c. 3500-3000 BCE
Alabaster; 36 inches
Female head, from Uruk
Uruk period, c. 3500-3000 BCE
white marble; 8 inches
The White Temple on its ziggurat, Uruk
Uruk period, c. 3500-3000 BCE
Stone and polished brick
4
The White Temple
on its ziggurat,
Uruk, diagram
Uruk period, c.
3500-3000 BCE
Stone and polished
brick
Mesopotamia
8th-7th century BCE
Chalcedony
Cylinder seals and impressions
Uruk
c. 3500-3000 BCE
Greenish black serpentine
Clay tablet with pictograph text that preceded cuneiform,
likely from Iraq
Mesopotamian, c. 3000 BCE
5
Cuneiform tablet with cylinder seal
Mesopotamian, c. 3100-2900 BCE
clay
Votive figures from the Abu
Temple at Tell Asmar
Sumerian, c. 2700-2500 BCE
Limestone, alabaster and
gypsum
6
Lyre sound box, from the
tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur
Sumerian, c. 2685 BCE
Wood with inlaid gold, lapis
lazuli, and shell
Head of an Akkadian
ruler (Sargon I?),
from Nineveh, Iraq
Akkadian, c. 2300 BCE
Bronze
7
Victory stele of Naram-Sin,
from Susa
c. 2254-2218 BCE
Pink sandstone
Head of Gudea, from
Lagash, Iraq
Neo-Sumerian, c. 2100 BCE
Diorite
Gudea with a temple plan,
from Lagash, Iraq
Neo-Sumerian, c. 2100 BCE
Diorite
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Nanna ziggurat, Ur
Neo-Sumerian, c. 2100-2050 BCE
Mud brick faced with baked
brick embedded in mortar made
of bitumen
Nanna ziggurat, Ur
Neo-Sumerian, c. 2100-2050 BCE
9
Stele inscribed with the law code
of Hammurabi, Susa
Babylonian, c. 1792-1750
Basalt, approx. 7 ft
Lion Gate (Royal Gate), Hattusus, Boghazkoy, Turkey
Hittite Empire, c. 1400 BCE
Stone
King Assurnasirpal II hunting lions, from Nimrud, Iraq
Assyrian, c. 883-859 BCE
Alabaster relief
10
City attacked with a battering ram, palace of King Assurnasirpal II,
Nimrud, Iraq
Assyrian, c. 883-859 BCE
Alabaster relief
Dying Lioness (detail from the Great Lion Hunt), from the
palace of King Assurbanipal II, Nineveh,
Assyrian, c. 668-627 BCE
Alabaster relief
Plan of Sargon II’s palace
Assyrian, c. 720 BCE
11
Lamassu, from the gateway,
Sargon II’s palace at Dur
Sharrukin, (now Khorsabad, Iraq)
Assyrian, c. 720 BCE
Limestone
Ishtar Gate (reconstructed),
from Babylon
Neo-Babylonian, c. 575 BCE
Glazed brick
Beaker, from Susa
Ancient Iran, c. 5000 – 4000 BCE
Painted pottery
12
Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessell
Ancient Iran, c. 3100 – 2999 BCE
Silver
Stag, from Kostromskaya, Russia,
Scythian, 7th century BCE
Chased gold
Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius,
Persepolis (in modern Iraq)
Achaemenid Persia, c. 500 BCE
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Royal guards, relief on the
stairway to the Audience Hall of
Darius, Persepolis
Achaemenid Persia, c. 500 BCE
Bull capital, Persepolis
Achaemenid Persia, c. 500 BCE
Achaemenid drinking vessel
Persian, 5th century BCE
gold
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