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Title: Standard of Ur
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Title: Map 2.1 The Ancient Near East
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Title: Babylonian deed of sale. This deed graphically shows the impressions made
by the stylus in the soft clay.
Source/ Museum: Department of Antiquities, No. 33236. The British
Museum, London
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Medium: clay
Date: ca. 1750 BCE.
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Title: Mud brick kasbahs at Aït Ben Haddou Morocco
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Title: Mud bricks at Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
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Title: Plan of the "White Temple" on its ziggurat (after H. Frankfort)
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Title: Remains of the “White Temple” on its ziggurat. Uruk (Warka), Iraq
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Date: ca. 3500-3000 BCE.
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Title: Interior of the cella of the "White Temple
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Title: Female Head. Uruk (Warka), Iraq.
Source/ Museum: Iraq Museum, Baghdad
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Medium: limestone
Date: ca. 3500-3000 BCE.
Size: height 8" (20.3 cm)
Title: Statues, from the Abu Temple. Tell Asmar, Iraq.
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 2700–2500 BCE.
Source/ Museum: Iraq Museum, Baghdad, and The Oriental Institute
Museum of The University of Chicago
Medium: limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
Size: height of tallest figure approx. 30" (76.3 cm)
Title: The Goat in Thicket (Ram and Tree), one of the pair from the Great Death Pit
in the Royal Cemetery of Ur. Muqaiyir, Iraq.
Source/ Museum: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
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Medium: wood, gold, and lapis lazuli
Date: ca. 2600 BCE.
Size: height 20" (50.8 cm)
Title: Standard of Ur, front and back sides.
Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London
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Medium: wood inlaid with shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli
Date: ca. 2600 BCE.
Size: height 8" (20.3 cm)
Title: Standard of Ur, front and back sides.
Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London
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Medium: wood inlaid with shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli
Date: ca. 2600 BCE.
Size: height 8" (20.3 cm)
Title: Bull Iyre, from the tomb of King Abargi, Ur (Muqaiyir), Iraq.
Source/ Museum: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Medium: wood with gold, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in modern wood support
Date: ca. 2600 BCE.
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Title: Inlay panel from the soundbox of a harp, from Ur (Muqaiyir), Iraq.
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Date: ca. 2600 BCE.
Source/ Museum: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
Medium: shell and bitumen
Size: 12 1/4 x 4 1/2" (31.1 x 11.3 cm)
Title: Priest-King Feeding Sacred Sheep, from vicinity of Uruk (Warka), Iraq.
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 3300 BCE.
Source/ Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, Vorderasiatisches Museum
Medium: marble cylinder seal
Size: height 2 1/8" (5.4 cm); diameter 1 3/4" (4.5 cm)
Title: Head of an Akkadian Ruler from Ninevah (Kuyunjik), Iraq.
Source/ Museum: Iraq Museum, Baghdad
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Medium: bronze
Date: ca. 2250-2200 BCE.
Size: height 12" (30.7 cm)
Title: Stele of Naram-Sin.
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Date: r. 2254-2218 BCE.
Size: height 6' 6" (2 m)
Title: Ziggurat of King Urnammu, Ur. Muqaiyir, Iraq.
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Date: ca. 2100 BCE.
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Title: Head of Gudea, from Lagash (Telloh), Iraq.
Source/ Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912.26.289
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Medium: diorite
Date: ca. 2100 BCE.
Size: 9 1/8" (23.18 cm) high
Title: Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan, from Girsu (Telloh), Iraq.
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Medium: diorite
Date: ca. 2100 BCE.
Size: height approx. 2'5" (73.66 cm)
Title: Upper part of stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi.
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Medium: diorite
Date: ca. 1760 BCE
Size: height of stele approx. 7' (2.1 m); height of relief 28" (71 cm)
Title: Reconstruction drawing of the citadel of Sargon II. After Charles Altman. Dur
Sharrukin (Khorsabad), Iraq
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Date: ca. 721-705 BCE.
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Title: Gate of the Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (photo taken during
excavation). (Khorsabad), Iraq
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Date: 742-706 BCE.
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Title: Fugitives Crossing River, from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II,
Nimrud (Calah), Iraq
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Date: ca. 883-859 BCE.
Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London
Medium: alabaster relief
Size: height approx. 39" (98 cm)
Title: Lion Hunt relief, from of Ashurbanipal.
Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London
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Date: ca. 850 BCE.
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Title: Ishtar Gate (restored), from Babylon, Iraq.
Artist: n/a
Date: ca. 575 BCE.
Source/ Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, Vorder-asiatisches Museum
Medium: glazed brick
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Title: The Lion Gate. Bogazköy, Antolia (Turkey)
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Date: ca. 1400 BCE.
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Title: Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx. Phoenician. Found at Fort
Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq
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Date: 9th-8th centuries BCE.
Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London
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Title: Painted beaker, from Susa.
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Date: ca. 5000-4000 BCE.
Size: height 11 1/4" (28.3 cm)
Title: Plan of Palace of Darius and Xerxes, Persepolis. Solid triangles show the processional route taken by Persian and
Mede notables; open triangles indicate the way taken by heads of delegations and their suites.
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Date: 518-460 BCE.
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Title: Rhyton. Achaemenid.
Source/ Museum: Archaeological Museum, Tehran, Iran
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Medium: gold
Date: 5th - 3rd centuries BCE.
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Title: Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes. Persepolis, Iran
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Date: ca. 500 BCE.
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Title: Bull capital, from Persepolis.
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Date: ca. 500 BCE.
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Title: Looters at the archaeological site of Isin, Southern Iraq
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Date: 'January, 2004
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Title: Darius and Xerxes Giving Audience.
Source/ Museum: Archaeological Museum, Tehran, Iran
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Medium: limestone
Date: ca. 490 BCE.
Size: height 8' 4" (2.5 m)
Title: Shapur I Triumphing over the Roman Emperors Philip the Arab and Valerian,
Naksh-I-Rustam (near Persepolis), Iran
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Date: 260-272 CE.
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Title: Palace of Shapur I. Ctesiphon, Iraq
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Date: 242-272 CE.
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Title: King Peroz I Hunting Gazelles
Artist: n/a
Date: late 5th century CE.
Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher
Fund, 1934 (34.33)
Medium: silver-gilt engraved,embossed, and inlaid with niello
Size: diameter 8 5/8" (21.9 cm); height 1 7/8" (4.6 cm)