ART 26: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Images to Identify:
Sumerian Art and Architecture
• Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq)
• Reconstruction drawing of the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, Uruk (modern
Warka, Iraq)
• Votive statues, from the Square Temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Akkadian Art and Architecture
• Stela of Naramsin
Neo-Sumerian Art and Architecture, city-state of Lagash
• Votive statue of Gudea
Babylonian Art and Architecture
• Stela of Hammurabi
Assyrian Art and Architecture
• Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden, from the palace at Nineveh
(modern Kuyunjik, Iraq)
• Lamassu (Human-Headed Winged Lion)
Neo-Babylonian Art and Architecture
• Ishtar Gate and throne room, from Babylon (Iraq)
• Reconstruction drawing of Babylon in the 6th century BCE
Persian Art and Architecture
• Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius I and Xerxes I, ceremonial complex,
Persepolis, Iran
• Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute, detail of a relief from the stairway leading
to the Apadana, ceremonial complex, Persepolis, Iran
Vocabulary:
bull-head and bull-figure capital
composite figure
cone mosaic
cuneiform
guardian figure
hieratic scale
horned headdress
lamassu
mud-brick
palace complex
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rod and ring of justice and power
stela or stele (plural: stelae)
temple complex
votive
ziggurat
Who was who?
Anu, the Sky God (Sumer)
Assurbanipal
Cyrus II, the Great
Darius I
Gudea
Guti
Hammurabi
Inanna (goddess of love and war [Sumer]; also know as Ishtar (Babylon), Isis
(Egypt), Aphrodite (Greek), and Venus (Roman)
Lullubi
Marduk
Nanna, the Moon God (Sumer)
Naramsin
Nebuchadnezzar II
Shamash
Xerxes I
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