Images for Viva

Alongside being able to identify the title, material and

timeline of the image, you must also be familiar with
the context of its creation and reception in society. You
may also be asked to compare it visually or thematically
with other artefacts so please be prepared for this.
 Human figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan
ca. 6750-6250 BCE. 3’ 5⅜” high. Lime plaster and reed.
Louvre, Paris
Landscape with volcanic eruption, Catal Huyuk Wall Painting,
6150 BCE (Neolithic age)
 Title: Votive Figures
Medium: Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
Size: height of largest figure approx. 30" ( 76.3 cm)
Date: c. 2900–2600 BCE
Source: The Square Temple, Eshnunna
(present-day Tell Asmar, Iraq).
Title: Front panel, the sound box of the Great Lyre
Medium: Wood with shell inlaid in bitumen
Time: 2600 – 2400 BCE (Sumerian empire)
Source: Royal cemetery, UR (modern day Iraq)
Dancing-girl,
Mohenjo-
daro,
Bronze, 2500
BCE, approx.
11 cm
 Miniature Mask,
Mohenjo-daro
Material: terra-cotta
Dimensions: 5.3 cm
height, 3.5 cm width
Title: Unicorn and the sacred symbols , Mohenjodaro
Material: Unfired tan steatite/White fire glazed steatite
Size: 5.08*5.08 cm
Source: National Museum, Karachi
Title: Steatite Seal with the
so called “proto-Shiva”,
Source: Mohenjo-daro
Timeline: 2500 – 2400 BCE
Material: Steatite
 Great Sphinx
Gizeh, Egypt Culture: Old Kingdom
ca. 2520-2494 BCE
Sandstone, approx. 65 feet high
 Title: Seated Scribe
Medium: Painted limestone with
inlaid eyes of rock crystal mounted
in copper
Size: height 21" (53 cm)
Date: Fifth Dynasty, c. 2450–2325
BCE
Source/Museum: found near the
tomb of Kai, Saqqara
Title: Ziggurat, Ur . Baked bricks laid in Bitumen, 50 ft. high
Date: c. 2100–2050 BCE
Location: Present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq
 Cleopatra's Needle in Alexandria,
Egypt, c. 1880. It was later moved to
Central Park in New York City.
Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir El-Bahri
Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1473–1458 BCE
Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb at Thebes,
New Kingdom
Painted papyrus scroll, approx. 1 foot, 6 inches
ca. 1290-1280 BCE
Title: Temple of Rameses II, at Abu Simbel
Date: Nineteenth Dynasty, c. 1290–1224 BCE
 Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions

• Medium: Alabaster
• Size: height approx. 39" (99.1 cm)

• Date: c. 850 BCE

• Source/Museum: Palace complex of

Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (present-day Nimrud, Iraq)
 Ishtar Gate
• Neo-Babylonian Period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II,
604–561 B.C.
Location: Iraq
Height: 106 cm (41 3/4 in.); width: 232 cm (91 5/16
in.)
Glazed bricks

• One of 120 life size lions that lined the Processional

Way from the Ishtar Gate to the Temple of Marduk
at Babylon
• Title: Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius and Xerxes

• Date: 518–c. 460 BCE

• Location: Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis, Iran
 Column-krater,
ca. 550 B.C.;
black-figure
Attributed to Lydos
Greek, Attic, Terracotta
H. 22 3/16 in. (56.39 cm)
Obverse: Hephaestus
on a mule among satyrs
and maenads
Reverse: Dionysus among
satyrs and maenads
Charioteer from the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi,
c. 480-470 BC.
Bronze, approx. 71” high
Apollo from west pediment of The Temple of Zeus, Olympia, marble, over-life-size,
c. 471-456 B.C.
The Dying Gaul from the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis,
copy, marble, c. 6' l, c. 230-220 B.C.
Laocoön, copy, marble,
c. 6' h, c. 200 B.C.
Old Market Woman, copy, marble, c. 4' h,
c. 3rd-2nd B.C.
Greek Columns: Doric, Ionic &
Corinthian