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Ancient Near East 9000-300BCE

Ancient Near East 9000-300BCE. Neolithic plastered skull, 7000 B.C., Jericho. Catal Huyuk, Turkey; city reproduction, 6500-5500 B.C. Drawing of Volcano over city; Catal Huyuk. Burial Mound, from a house in Catal Huyuk. Anatolian goddess giving birth; Catal Huyuk, 6500-5700 B.C., Baked clay

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Ancient Near East 9000-300BCE

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  1. Ancient Near East 9000-300BCE

  2. Neolithic plastered skull, 7000 B.C., Jericho

  3. Catal Huyuk, Turkey; city reproduction, 6500-5500 B.C.

  4. Drawing of Volcano over city; Catal Huyuk

  5. Burial Mound, from a house in Catal Huyuk

  6. Anatolian goddess giving birth; Catal Huyuk, 6500-5700 B.C., Baked clay (depicted with their divine animal)

  7. Two Leopards, Shrine Vla, Catal Huyuk, 6000 B.C. painted plaster relief

  8. Cone Mosaics; Uruk, 3500 B.C.

  9. Carved vase; Uruk, 3500-3000 B.C., alabaster; abundance of vegetation in the iconography reinforces relationship to festivals of seasonal renewal and rebirth ~ goddess Inanna

  10. Female head, Uruk, 3500-3000 B.C., white marble (modern day Warka, Iraq) Spoil of war – looted from the Iraq National Museum after the fall of Iraq to the US in April 2003. Returned months later but was badly damaged.

  11. Statues from the Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, 2700 – 2500 B.C. limestone, alabaster, gypsum Statue of god Abu

  12. The White Temple on its ziggurat, Uruk, 3500-3000 B.C. stone and polished brick, called the white temple b/c of the white paint on the outer walls

  13. 1 ramp 2 stairway 3 Cella (main corridor 4 entrance 5 altar 5 1 2 3 4

  14. Cylinder seal and impression; glyptic (greek- carved) art, intaglio printing; three pigtailed ladies and double handled vessels, 3300-3100 B.C., rock crystal

  15. Cylinder Seal and its Modern Impression, Tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur, 2600-2500BCE, Lapis Lazuli

  16. Cuneiform, cuneus – wedge, think of “cone”; Semitic language

  17. Head of an Akkadian ruler (Sargon I?); Nineveh; 2300 B.C., bronze

  18. Bull head lyre/sound box, Ur, 2685 B.C.

  19. Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur. (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq) Sumerian. C. 2600-2400 BCE wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone video

  20. Victory stele of Naram-Sin; Susa, 2254-2218 B.C., pink sandstone

  21. Nanna ziggurat, Ur, 2100- 2050 B.C.

  22. Gudea with a temple plan and Head of Gudea; Lagash, 2100 B.C.

  23. Stele inscribed with the law code of Hammurabi, Susa, 1792-1750 B.C. Basalt Hammurabi stands before the Akkadian sun god Shamash who is enthroned on a symbolic mountain

  24. Lion gate (Royal gate), Hattusas, Turkey, 1400 B.C., stone

  25. Hittite warrior god, from the King’s gate, Hattusas, 1400 B.C.

  26. King Assurnasirpal II hunting lions, Nimrud, 883-859 B.C., Alabaster relief

  27. Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: bodyguards protect the king from a charging lion at the rear of the royal chariot

  28. Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: wounded lion vomiting blood, detail of relief from North Palace at Nineveh

  29. Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: wounded lioness

  30. Plan of Sargon II’s palace VI. Royal Apartments VII. Throne Room VIII. Ambassador’s Courtyard XV. Center Courtyard XXIV. Ziggurat

  31. Lamassu, from the gateway, Sargon II’s palace at Dur Sharrukin, 720 B.C, Limestone

  32. Ishtar Gate from Babylon, 575 B.C., Glazed brick

  33. Knelling Bull, Proto-Elamite, 3100-2999 B.C. silver Has no “Provenience”

  34. Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius and stairway, Persepolis, 500 B.C., decorated with one hundred 40 foot columns, originally painted, the shafts show influence of other cultures, Greek and Egyptian but bull capitals are unique to Persia.

  35. Apadana, detail, Royal Guards, 500 B.C.

  36. Bull Capital, Perspolis

  37. Achaemenid drinking vessel, Persian, 5th century B.C., gold

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