Chapter 1 – Art in the Stone Age
1-3 Human with feline head from HohlensteinStadel, Germany, ca. 40,000 BCE, Woolly
Mammoth Ivory – Paleolithic
1-4 Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf) from Willendorf,
Austria, ca. 28,000- 25,000 BCE. Limestone.
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna – Paleolithic
1-9 Spotted Horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in
the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 22,000 BCE. – Paleolithic
1-11 Aurochs, Horses, and Rhinoceroses wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-de’Arc, France, ca. 30,00028,000 BCE or 15,000-13,000 BCE – Paleolithic
1-1 Hall of the Bulls (left wall) in the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE. – Paleolithic
1-13 Aerial View of Neolithic Jericho, looking east Jericho, ca. 8,000-7,000 BCE – Neolithic
1-15 Human Figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, ca. 6750-6250 BCE. Plaster, painted and inlaid with bitumen. Louvre, Paris.
Neolithic
1-15A Restored view of a section of Level VI, Çatal Höyük, Turkey, ca. 6000- 5900 BCE. Neolithic
1-16 Deer Hunt, detail of wall panting from level III, Çatal Höyük, Turkey, ca. 5750 BCE, Museum of Anatolian Civilization,
Ankara. Neolithic
1-17A House 1 Skara Brae, ca. 3100-2500 BCE Neolithic
1-20 Circle of trilithons (looking southwest), Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, ca. 2550-1600 BCE. Neolithic
Chapter 2 – Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia
2-2 White Temple, Uruk, (modern Warka), Iraq, ca. 3300 BCE Sumerian
2-4 Female Head (Inanna?), from Uruk, Iraq, ca. 3200-3000 BCE. Marble, Iraq Museum, Baghdad - Sumerian
2-5 Statuettes of two worshipers, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna, Iraq, ca. 2700 BCE, Gypsum inlaid with shell and
black limestone, Iraq Museum, Baghdad – Sumerian
2-9, 2-10 War Side and Peace Side of the Standard of Ur, from tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq, ca. 2600 BCE, wood
inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone, British Museum, London. – Sumerian
2-6 Bull Headed Harp from tomb 789, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq, ca. 2600 BCE, Gold leaf, lapis lazuli, wood, shell,
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. – Sumerian
2-8 Banquet scene, cylinder seal and its impression, from the tomb of Pu-abi, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq, ca. 2600 BCE,
Lapis Lazuli, British Museum, London.– Sumerian
2-12 Head of an Akkadian ruler, from Nineveh, Iraq, ca. 2250-2200 BCE, copper, Iraq Museum, Baghdad. – Akkadian
2-13 Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, From Susa, Iran, 2254-2218 BCE, Pink sandstone, Louvre, Paris. – Akkadian
2-15 Ziggurat, Ur, Iraq, ca. 2100 BCE – Neo-Sumerian
2-17 Gudea Standing holding an overflowing water jar, from the Temple of Geshtinanna, Girsu (modern Telloh), Iraq, ca.
2100 BCE Neo-Sumerian
2-18 Stele with law code of Hammurabi, from Susa, Iran, ca. 1780 BCE Basalt, Louvre, Paris. – Babylonian
2-20 Lamassu (winged human-headed bull) from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin, Iraq, ca. 720-705, Limestone,
Louvre, Paris. – Assyrian
2-23 Ashurbanipal hunting lions, relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, Iraq, ca. 645-640 BCE, Gypsum,
British Museum, London. – Assyrian
2-24 Ishtar Gate, Babylon, Iraq, ca. 575 BCE, Staatliche, Museen, Berlin. – NeoBabylonian
2-25 Persepolis, Iran, ca. 521-465 BCE. – Persian
2-27 Palace of Khosrow I, Ctesiphon, Iraq, ca. 531-579 CE – Sesanian
Chapter 3 – Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra
3-2/3 Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, ca. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
– Predynastic Egypt
3-5 Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630-2611 BCE. –
Early Dynastic Egypt
3-8 Great Pyramids, Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty: Menkaure, ca. 2490-2472; Khafre ca. 2520-2494; Khufu, ca. 25512528. – Old Kingdom Egypt
3-13 Menkaure and Khamerernebty (?), from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2490-2472. Graywacke, Museum of Fine
Arts Boston. – Old Kingdom Egypt
3-14 Seated Scribe, from Saqqara, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2500 BCE, Painted limestone, Louvre, Paris. – Old Kingdom
Egypt
3-17 Head of Senusret III, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1860-1850 BCE, Red quartzite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. –
Middle Kingdom Egypt
3-20 Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (with the Middle Kingdom Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II at left), Deir elBahri, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1473-58 BCE. New Kingdom Egypt
3-29 Akhenaton, from the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1335 BCE Sandstone, Egyptian
Museum, Cairo. - Amarna Period Egypt
3-30 Thutmose, Nefertiti, from Amarna, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1335 BCE, painted limestone, Ägyptisches
Museum, Berlin. – Amarna Period Egypt
3-32 Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters, from Amarna, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1335 BCE, Limestone,
Ägyptisches Museum Berlin. Amarna Period Egypt
3-33 Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen, from his tomb at Thebes, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1323 BCE, gold with inlay of
enamel and semiprecious stones, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. – New Kingdom Egypt
3-23 Temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1290-1224 BCE, Sandstone. – New Kingdom Egypt
3-26 Columns and clerestory of the Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amen-Re, Karnak, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1290-1224 BCE.
– New Kingdom Egypt
Chapter 4 – The Prehistoric Aegean
4-2 Figurine of a Woman, from Syros, Greece, ca. 2500-2300 BCE, Marble, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. –
Cycladic
4-3 Male Harp Player, from Keros, Greece, ca. 2700-2500 BCE, Marble, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. –
Cycladic
4-8 Bull-Leaping from the palace at Knossos, Greece, ca. 1450-1400 BCE, fresco, Archaeological Museum, Herakleion. –
Minoan
4-11 Kamares-war jar, from Phaistos, Greece, ca. 1800-1700 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Herakleion. – Minoan
4-13 Snake Goddess, from the palace at Knossos, Greece, ca. 1600 BCE, Faience, Archaeological Museum, Herakleion. –
Minoan
4-19 Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1300-1250 BCE, Limestone. – Mycenaean
4-21 Interior of the Tholos of the Treasury of Atreus Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1300- 1250 BCE. – Mycenaean
4-22 Funerary Mask, from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1600-1500, Beaten Gold, National Archaeological
Museum, Athens. – Mycenaean
4-24 Hunter Capturing a Bull, drinking cup from Vapheio, near Sparta, Greece, ca. 1600-1500 BCE. Gold, National
Archaeological Museum, Athens. Minoan/Mycenaean
4-27 Warrior Vase From Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1200 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. – Mycenaean