UNIT TWO

P11 Sumerian Art and Architecture                             
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 2
White Temple and its ziggurat. Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 3500–3000 B.C.E. Mud brick. (V: Sumerians, ziggurat, cella)
Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2700 B.C.E. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone. (V: votive figures, pious, gypsum)
Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2600–2400 B.C.E. Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. (V: registers, lapis lazuli)

P12 Ancient Akkadian and Babylonian Art     
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 2
Anthropomorphic stele. Arabian Peninsula. Fourth millennium B.C.E. Sandstone. (V: stele, awl)
The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (modern Iran). Susian. c. 1792–1750 B.C.E. Basalt. (V: Babylonians, bas relief, cuneiform)

P13 Ancient Assyrian and Persian Art                         
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 2
Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq). Neo-Assyrian. c. 720–705 B.C.E. Alabaster. (V: Assyrians, lamassu, tutelary)
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes. Persepolis, Iran. Persian. c. 520–465 B.C.E. Limestone. (V: Persians, Achaemenid, apadana, tribute, protomes)

P14 Predynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt                   
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 3
Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000–2920 B.C.E. Greywacke. (V: Horus, Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt, idealized)
Seated scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620–2500 B.C.E. Painted limestone. (V: frontal, papyrus scroll)
King Menkaura and queen. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2490–2472 B.C.E. Greywacke. (V: dyad, ka, nemes)
 
P15 Old Kingdom Egyptian: Pyramids at Saqqara and Gizeh                                  
Theme: Images of Power                                               Gardners: Chapter 3                                                                                                                                           
Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2550–2490 B.C.E. Cut limestone. (V: ben-ben, mastaba, Re, sphinx, serdab)
 
P16 New Kingdom Egyptian: Temple of Hatshepsut  
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 3
Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1473–1458 B.C.E. Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite. (V: New Kingdom, colonnade, Hathor, axial plan)

P17 New Kingdom Egyptian: Temples of Ramses II and Amun-Re  
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 3
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple: c. 1550 B.C.E.; hall: c. 1250 B.C.E. Cut sandstone and mud brick. (V: hypostyle hall, clerestory, Amun-Re, sunken relief, Beautiful Festival of the Valley, barque)

P18 New Kingdom Egyptian: Age of Akhenaton         
Theme: Images of Power                                                Gardners: Chapter 3
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. c. 1353–1335 B.C.E. Limestone. (V: Amarna style, Aten, symmetry, ankh)
Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 B.C.E. Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.  (V: uraeus, crook, flail, sarcophagus)

P19 New Kingdom Egyptian: Book of the Dead
Theme: Death and the Afterlife                                    Gardners: Chapter 3             
Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1275 B.C.E. Painted papyrus scroll. (V: continuous narration, Anubis, Thoth, Osiris, Maat)

P20 Greek Funerary Art
Theme: Death and the Afterlife                                    Gardners: Chapter 5             
Anavysos Kouros. Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble with remnants of paint. (V: Archaic Greek style, kouros)
Grave stele of Hegeso. Attributed to Kallimachos. c. 410 B.C.E. Marble and paint. (V: Classical Greek style, genre scene, high relief)

P21 Classical Greek: Parthenon                                                                                    
Theme: Sacred Spaces and Rituals                              Gardners: Chapter 5
Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447–410 B.C.E. Marble. (V: Doric order, Ionic order, pediment, metopes, triglyphs, peristyle, Athena)

P22 Archaic and Classical Greek: Charioteer and the Doryphoros                                      
Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition             Gardners: Chapter 5
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis. Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble, painted details. (V: kore, peplos)
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Polykleitos. Original 450–440 B.C.E. Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze). (contrapposto, sophrosyne, Canon, ephebe)

P23 Classical and Late Classical Greek Art: Praxiteles and Lysippos                                                                        
​Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition               Gardners: Chapter 5
Athenian agora. Archaic through Hellenistic Greek. 600 B.C.E.–150 C.E. Plan. (V: agora, stoa, Panathenaic Way, tholos)
Niobides Krater. Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter. c. 460–450 B.C.E. Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights). (krater, red-figure technique, slip, kiln, Herakles, Niobe)

P24 Classical to Hellenistic Sculpture                                                              
Theme: Images of War and Violence                           Gardners: Chapter 5
Winged Victory of Samothrace. Hellenistic Greek. c. 190 B.C.E. Marble. (Hellenistic Greek style, Nike, promontory)
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek. c. 175 B.C.E. Marble (architecture and sculpture). (V: Pergamene kingdom, gigantomachy, isocephalism)
Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii. Republican Roman. c. 100 B.C.E. Mosaic. (V: mosaic, tesserae, foreshortening)
Seated boxer. Hellenistic Greek. c. 100 B.C.E. Bronze. (V: bronze, pathos, casting)