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Content Area 1: Global Prehistory
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean
Content Area 3: Early Europe & Colonial Americas
Content Area 4: Later Europe and Americas
Content Area 5: Indigenous Americas
Content Area 6: Africa
Content Area 7: West and Central Asia
Content Area 8: South, East and Southeast Asia
Content Area 9: The Pacific
Content Area 10: Global Contemporary
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content area 2
Ancient mediterranean
(3500 B.C.E. - 300 C.E.)
36 works
12. White temple and its ziggurat / Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) / Sumerian / c. 3500 - 3000 BCE / mud brick
13. Palette of King Narmer / Predynastic Egypt / c. 3000-2920 BCE / greywacke
14. Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple of Eshunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq) / Sumerian / c. 2700 BCE / gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
15. Seated Scribe / Saqqara, Egypt / Old Kingdom , Fourth Dynasty / c. 2620-2500 BCE / painted limestone
16. 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
17. Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx / Giza, Egypt / Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty / c. 2550 - 2490 BCE / cut limestone
18. King Menkaura and queen / Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty / c. 2490-2472 BCE / greywacke
19. The Code of Hammurabi / Babylon (modern Iran) / Susian / c. 1792-1750 BCE / basalt
20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall / Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt / New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties / Temple: c. 1550 BCE; Hall: c. 1250 BCE / cut limestone and mud brick
21. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut / Near Luxor, Egypt / New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty / c. 1473 - 1458 BCE / sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite
22. Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters / New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty / c. 1353 - 1335 BCE / limestone
23. Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin / New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty / c. 1323 BCE / gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
24. Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead) / New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty / c. 1275 BCE / painted papyrus scroll
25. Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq) / Neo-Assyrian / c. 720 - 705 BCE / alabaster
26. Athenian agora / Archaic through Hellenistic Greek / 600 BCE - 150 CE / plan
27. Anavysos Kouros / Archaic Greek / c. 530 BCE / marble with remnants of paint
28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis / Archaic Greek / c. 530 BCE / marble, painted details
29. Sarcophagus of the Spouses / Etruscan / c. 520 BCE / terra-cotta
30. Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes / Persepolis, Iran / Persian / c. 520 - 465 BCE / limestone
31. Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo / Master sculptor of Vulca / c. 510 - 500 BCE / Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock); terra-cotta sculpture
32. Tomb of the Triclinium / Tarquinia, Italy / Etruscan / c. 480 - 470 BCE / tufa and fresco
A8. Capitoline Wolf / from Rome, Italy / c. 500 – 480 C.E. / bronze
33. Niobides Krater / A: Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter / c. 460 - 450 BCE / Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)
34. Doyphoros (Spear-Bearer) / A: Polykleitos / Original: 450 - 440 BCE / Roman copy (marble) of a Greek original (bronze)
35. Acropolis / Athens, Greece / A: Iktinos and Kallikrates / c. 447 - 410 BCE / marble
36. Grave stele of Hegeso / Attributed to Kallimachos / c. 410 BCE / marble and paint
37. Winged Victory of Samothrace / Hellenistic Greek / c. 190 BCE / marble
38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon / Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) / Hellenistic Greek / c. 175 BCE / marble (architecture and sculpture)
39. House of the Vettii / Pompeii, Italy / Imperial Roman / c. second century BCE, rebuilt c. 62-79 CE / cut stone and fresco
40. Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun , Pompeii / Republican Roman / c. 100 BCE / mosaic
41. Seated Boxer / Hellenistic Greek / c. 100 BCE / bronze
42. Head of a Roman patrician / Republican Roman / c. 75 - 50 BCE / Marble
43. Augustus of Prima Porta / Imperial Roman / Early first century C.E. / marble
44. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) / Rome, Italy / Imperial Roman / 70 - 80 CE / stone and concrete
45. The Forum of Trajan / Rome, Italy / A: Apollodorus of Damascus / Forum and markets: 106-112 CE ; column completed 113 CE / brick and concrete (architecture); marble (column)
46. Pantheon / Imperial Roman / 118 - 125 CE / concrete with stone facing
47. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus / Late Imperial Roman / c. 250 CE / marble
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