Art History One
The Roots of Western Art: The Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Ancient Near East and the
Mediterranean
Title
Example of a postand-lintel structure
Sketch/photo
Notes
Diagram: Fig. 1-19
More images, diagrams of Stonehenge
(Wikipedia)
Stonehenge,
Salisbury Plain,
England
ca, 2550-1600 BCE
Fig. 1-20
Example of a
structure using
a corbelled arch
Diagram, architectural information: Fig. 4-18;
More images, diagrams of Newgrange
(Wikipedia); note that the photo of the
textbook’s example was taken looking up.
Corbeled dome of the
main chamber of the
passage grave,
Newgrange, Ireland
ca. 3200-2500 BCE
Fig. 1-17
Lion Stela
Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
ca. 10,000-9,000 BCE
Deer Hunt wall mural
Çatal Höyük, Turkey
6500-5700 BCE
Fig. 1-15
More information on image and site at the link
Basket-handled jar
with red painted
design
Çatal Höyük, Turkey
Description from 2000 Excavation Archive Report
from Çatal Höyük, with link to image
6500-5700 BCE
Steatopygous female
figure
Cyclades (Greece)
ca. 4500–4000 BCE
Painted pot from
Dimini
Dimini (Thessaly,
Greece)
ca. 4000-3000 BCE
Ziggurat of Ur
Ur, Mesopotamia
c. 2100 BCE
Fig. 2-15
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Statuettes of two
worshippers
Mesopotamia
(Sumer)
c. 2700 BCE
Fig. 2-5
“Standard of Ur”
Ur, Mesopotamia
c. 2600-2400 BCE
Figs. 2-7 and 2-8
Rearing Goat with a
Flowering Plant
(“Ram in a thicket”)
Ur, Mesopotamia
c. 2600-2400 BCE
Great Lyre with Bull’s
Head and inlaid panel
Ur, Mesopotamia
2600-2400 BCE
Fig. 2-8
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Funerary painting
from Hierakonpolis
Egypt
Painted tomb of Nekhen (scroll down for a
better image of this painting).
Predynastic
3500-3200 BCE
Fig. 3-1A
Palette of Narmer
Hierakonpolis, Egypt
Early Dynastic
3900-2920 BCE
Fig. 3-2, 3-3
Stepped pyramid of
Djoser (Zoser)
Imhotep (architect)
Saqqara, Egypt
3-6 model and plan of the mortuary precinct
Old Kingdom, 3rd
Dynasty, 2630-2611
BCE
Fig. 3-5
Great pyramids of
Menkhaure, Kafre,
and Khufu
Giza, Egypt
Fig. 3-9 section of Khufu’s pyramid
Fig. 3-10 model of the pyramid complex
Old Kingdom, 4th
Dynasty, ca. 24902528 BCE
Fig. 3-8
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Menkaure and his
Wife, Queen
Khamerernebty
Giza, Egypt
Old Kingdom, 4th
Dynasty, 2490-2472
BCE
Fig. 3-13
Wooden funerary
models from Egypt
(scribes, brewers)
Thebes, Egypt
Tombs of Meketre and Wah, Thebes
Middle Kingdom, 12th
Dynasty, ca. 1975
BCE
Faience Statuette of
a Hippopotamus
Meir, Middle Egypt
Middle Kingdom, 12th
Dynasty, ca. 19811885 BCE
Mortuary temple of
Hatshepsut
Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
New Kingdom, 18th
Dynasty, ca. 14731458 BCE
Fig. 3-20
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Akhenaten
(Amenophis IV)
Karnak, Egypt
New Kingdom, 18th
Dynasty, ca. 13531335 BCE (Amarna
period)
Fig. 3-30
Bust of Queen
Nefertiti
Thutmose (sculptor)
Amarna, Egypt
New Kingdom, 18th
Dynasty (Amarna
Period)
Fig. 3-31
Queen Tiye
Ghrab, Egypt
New Kingdom, 18th
Dynasty (Amarna
period)
Fig. 3-32
Death Mask of
Tutankhamen
Thebes, Egypt
Also: Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen
Fig. 3-34
New Kingdom, 18th
Dynasty (Amarna
period), ca. 1323 BCE
Fig. 3-35
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Figurine of a woman
Syros (Cyclades),
Greece
c. 2500-2400 BCE
Fig. 4-2
Lyre player
Cyclades, Greece
This lyre player and an aulos (flute) player
are available at this link.
c. 2600-2500 BCE
Fig. 4-3
Bull-leapers fresco
Palace of Minos
Knossos, Crete
c. 1550 BCE
Fig. 4-8
Sarcophagus
Hagia Triada, Crete
Details, Figs. 4-1a, 1b 1c
ca. 1450-1400 BCE
Fig. 4-1
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Landscape with
swallows (Spring
Fresco)
Akrotiri, Thera
(Cyclades), Greece
ca. 1650 BCE
Fig. 4-9
Kamares Ware jar
Phaistos, Crete
ca.1800-1700 BCE
Fig. 4-11
Marine Style
Octopus jar
Palaikastro, Crete
ca.1500 BCE
Fig. 4-12
Lion Gate
Mycenae (mainland
Greece)
1300-1250 BCE
Fig. 4-19
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“Treasury of Atreus”
Beehive (Tholos)
tomb in Minoan
style, near the citadel
of Mycenae
Interior vault (corbelled) Fig. 4-21
1300-1250 BCE
Fig. 4-20
Warrior Vase
Mycenae, Mainland
Greece
Ca. 1200 BCE
Fig. 4-26
Gold Funerary mask,
“Death Mask of
Agamemnon”
Mycenae
1600-1500 BCE
Fig. 4-22
Inlaid Dagger blade
with Lion Hunt
Mycenae
Ca. 1500 BCE
Fig. 4-23
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