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Flashcards by Mitch McGee, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mitch McGee
about 6 years ago
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| Figure of Willendorf, 30,000-10,000 B.C, Preshistoric, Paleolithic | |
| Lascaux Cave Paintings, 30,000-10,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Paleolithic | |
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Pech-Merle Cave Paintings, 30,000-10,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Paleolithic |
| Woman holding a bison horn, 30,000-10,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Paleolithic | |
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Bison, La Madeleine, 30,000-10,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Paleolithic |
| Two Clay Bison, Tuc D'Audoubert, 30,000-10,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Paleolithic | |
| Tower of Jericho, 8,000-2,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Neolithic | |
| Skull of Jericho, 8,000-2,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Neolithic | |
| Catal Hayuk (Condensed ancient city structure), 8,000-2,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Neolithic | |
| Stone Henge, 8,000-2,000 B.C, Prehistoric, Neolithic | |
| Relief Sculpture | relief sculpture is any work which projects from but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it is carved |
| Cromlech | a megalithic tomb consisting of a large flat stone laid on upright ones |
| Post-and-lintel | a building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them |
| Menhir | a tall upright stone of a kind erected in prehistoric times in western Europe |
| Megaliths | a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb). |
| Megalithic | 1. relating to or denoting prehistoric monuments made of or containing megaliths 2. Massive or Monolithic |
| Formal Analysis | Formal analysis is a specific type of visual description. Unlike ekphrasis, it is not meant to evoke the work in the reader's mind. Instead it is an explanation of visual structure, of the ways in which certain visual elements have been arranged and function within a composition. |
| Iconography | the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these |
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Statuettes from the Temple of Abu, 3,000-2,200 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian |
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Standard of Ur, 3,000-2,200 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian |
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Bull-Headed Lyre from Ur, 3,000-2,200 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian |
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Bronze Head of a Ruler/Sargon, 2,200 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Akkadian |
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Stele of Narm Sim, 2,200 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Akkadian |
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Ziggurat at Ur, 2,000 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Neo-Sumerian |
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Statue of Gudea, 2,000 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Neo-Sumerian |
| Stele with the Code of Hammurabi, 1,700 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Babylonian | |
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Lion Gate, 1,400 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Hittite |
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Citadel of Sargon II, 1,000-600 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Assyrian |
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Lamassu from Palace of Sargon II, 1,000-600 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Assyrian |
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Ashurbanipal hunting lions, 1,000-600 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Assyrian |
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Ishtar Gate, Babylon, 600 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Neo-Babylonian |
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Palace of Darius I, Persepolis, 500-200 B.C, Ancient Near Eastern, Persian |
| Cuneiform | The wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets |
| Shamash | Shamash was the son of Sin. Shamash, as the solar deity, exercised the power of light over darkness and evil |
| Ziggurat | a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel |
| Lamassu | Assyrian protective deity, often depicted as having a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings |
| Lapis-Lazuli | Lapis lazuli or lapis for short, is a deep blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color. Very expensive, symbol of power |
| Sin | an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law |
| Sargon | Sargon of Akkad was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC |
| Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, a major hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late second millennium BC. He probably ruled sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC and was posthumously deified |
| Diorite | Used as architectural stones, very solid, similar to granite |
| Stele | a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument |
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