Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia)

HUM 1001

Art History: Prehistory to the Middle Ages

W2 Project

Part 1: The Art of the Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia)

Example #1:

Title: Sumerian Votine Figures

Origin: Square Temple, Eshnunna/Asmar, Iraq

Time Period: C. 2900 – 2600 BCE

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Example #2:

Title: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Origin: Mesopotamia/ Shush, Iran/ Akkadian

Time Period: 2254 – 2218 BCE

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Example #3:

Title: Stele/Code of Hammurabi

Time Period: C. 1972 – 1750 BCE

Origin: Susa, Iraq

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Part 2 – The Art of the Ancient Aegean

Example #1:

Title: Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers

Time Period: Before 1630 BCE

Origin: Petros M. Nomikos, Greece

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Example #2:

Title: Lion Gate, Mycenae

Time Period: C. 1250 BCE

Origin: City of Mycenae

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Example #3:

Title: Figure of a Woman

Time Period: C. 2600 – 2400 BCE

Origin: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Cyclades/ Grave Island of Syros

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References

Ancient to Medieval Art (n.d) Retrieved from: https://klimtlover.wordpress.com/theprehistoric-aegean/cycladic-art/

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin (n.d.). American Historical Associaton. Retrieved From: https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/images-of-power-art-as-an-historiographic-tool/victory-stele-of-naram-sin