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"Two Bison" Le Tuc d’Audoubert Cave, France c.15,000 - 10,000 BCE Clay Important: 1. Large animals created showing the…

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1—"Two Bison"
Le Tuc d’Audoubert Cave, France
c.15,000 - 10,000 BCE
Clay
Important:
1. Large animals created showing the strength and power they had
2. Showed people are still living in caves with art being deep in cave
3. Showed control over the animal by trapping them deep in the cave even though it was dangerous to go deep into a cave
4. Exaggerated the bodies, skinny legs and big bodies because that is where all the meat is and were wishing for lots of meat
5. Bison were very detailed, created such detail because of the respect the people had for the animals.
2—"Well Scene"
Lascaux Cave, France
c. 16,000 –14,000 BCE
Important:
1. Shows the dangers of hunting, man being speared
2. Shows "magic", show a bad outcome to prevent it
3. Rhino painted to wish for animals to hunt
4. Man with bird mask, shows beginning of priests
5. Bison speared to wish for good hunting
3—Female Figurine seated on lion throne
Chatal Huyuk
clay
c. 6000 BCE
found in grain bin
Important:
1. Exaggerated female figure, hoping for well fed
2. Lion throne points to women being possible goddess
3. Object between legs possibly a baby shows sitting for giving birth
4. Found in grain, were wishing for hoof fertility with plants
5. Shows her possibly being a fertility goddess
4—The “Warka Vase”
Limestone
Uruk, Mesopotamia
c. 3500-3100 BCE
Important:
1. River on bottom b/c it supports the people from the ground up
2. Sheep and goats on vase as they are the most important animal to the Mesopotamia people
3. Naked man is usually humiliation, in this case it is respect to the gods
4. Vase represents how society can be built from the bottom up
5. Shows the very first civilizations take on the world
5—Bull-headed lyre wood decorated with lapis lazuli, gold, and shell inlays
“Royal Tombs” of Ur
c. 2600 BCE
Important:
1. Lapis shows the wealth and long distance trading with Afghanistan.
2. Wild bull is transformed to a tamed and controlled animal, bull giving up body
3. Animal is almost like an instruction manual
4. Animals are attending the banquet, mythological realm
5. All the animals are doing human things
6—“The Stele of Naram-Sin,”
pink sandstone
c. 2250 BCE
Important:
1. Naram-Sin is the biggest and shows his power, stands alone at the top
2. Sun, moon, and evening star at top, shows importance of astrology and Gods.
3. Shape of statue represents the Zagros mountain that he just fought the war at
4. Pink sandstone is from Lullubi, makes an "I own you" statement
5. Horns on his head make him a God, Mesopotamian people eventually look back at him as a bad leader b/c of this
7—“Law Code of Hammurabi”
Susa
diorite
c. 1760 BCE
Important:
1. One of the first documents law codes
2.Everyone could go and learn their right, no discrimination
3. God of Sun and Wisdom, you could see everything and know everything needed to make a decision
4. God gives Hammurabi the authority to make punishments when he gives him rod and ring
5. Hammurabi much more humble than other previous kings
8—Relief of Sacred tree flanked by Assyrian king and 2 “genies”
gypsum
Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud
c. 883-858 BCE
Important:
1. Shows what Syrians thought empire means
2. The palm tree has runners coming off of it, shows how Syria wants to spread everywhere
3. First sign of a nation wanting colonialism
4. Shows how the King protects the tree, meaning he protects the nation
5. The "Genies" are the Gods that protect the King and allow Syria to grow and spread forever
9—The Ishtar Gate, reign of Nebuchadnezzar,
Babylon
Glazed brick
c. 604-562 BCE
Important:
1. The glazed brick allowed it to stay preserved and keep color
2. Rows of bulls and mushussu, animals related to different gods
3. The animals could gain the god's powers to keep gate safe
4. Would keep one of each animal physically at gate to further have gods powers
5. Gate is blue because can't see it at night so enemies would just see the animals on it and become scared
10—Palette of King Narmer
Hierakonpolis
slate
Height: 25 inches
c. 3150-3125 BCE
Important:
1. Shows the exaggerated sizes of Pharaoh's in Egypt
2. 2-3 times the size of the others, easily smash who he wants
3. The captive is former King of lower Egypt, beheaded and shows upper Egypt always had more power even though it was supposed to be equal
4. Narmer wears captives' crown showing he thinks he should be ruler of upper and lower Egypt
5. Bird represent a God, god approves of killing
11—Pyramid complex and Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser
Designed by Imhotep
c. 2681-2662 BCE
stone and mudbrick
Saqqara
Important:
1. First pyramid, made of stacked mastaba
2. Built parts at a time, worried about person dying and having to burry in incomplete tomb
3. Had courtyard with obstacle course that King Djoser would use to proove he is still young
4. In funeral home, has hole you can look through and see Djoser, makes him live on "forever."
5.Imhotep ended up being called a Demigod for his pyramid building
12—The Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx
Giza
c. 2601-2515 BCE
Pyramids: granite and limestone
Sphinx: sandstone
Important:
1. Largest and only in tact original 7 wonders of the world
2. Largest structure on Earth for 3800 years
3. Pharaoh's tombs, buried on west side of Nile b/c they could be on the side the sun sets on forever
4. Pyramid had goldstone on top, first think you would see in morning, links Pharaoh's to gods
5. Sphinx is possibly the Pharaoh as a lion protecting his own tomb
13—Hunter Ti during hippopotamus hunt
Seth = god of chaos
Old Kingdom elitetomb painting
Mastaba of Ti,
Saqqara,
Dynasty 12
c. 2450-2350 BCE
4 feet tall
Important:
1. Making himself a Pharaoh on his tomb by making himself so large
2. Has strong physique similar to Pharaoh's as well
3. Shows he supports Pharaoh by mimicking him
4. Proves his bravery by attacking hippos, most feared animal on the Nile
5. Body shows how most bodies were made, body forward facing and eyes at profile, thought it was best representation of human body
14—Pectoral With Cartouche of King Kha-kheper-re Senuseret II
From “The Lahun Treasure” of Princess
Sit-Hathor-Yunet
gold and precious stones, in cloisonné,
c. 1887–1813 BCE
Important:
1. Shows the extreme detail they had, 372 tiny individual pieces
2. Two cobras represent the upper and lower land the King ruled
3. Princess would wear in tomb so her father would always be Pharaoh
4. Had necklaces for brother and nephew so they could rule forever as well
5. Orange stones represented Sun God
15—Hatshepsut as female king (left) and male king (right)
Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple,
Deir el-Bahri
Dynasty 18
c. 1473-1458 BCE
granite
Important:
1. People couldn't handle idea of female Pharaoh, had to represent herself as a male
2. She makes many statues of herself in different male clothing
3. Wasn't the first female ruler but ended up being a very popular ruler
4. Kneeling is offering gifts to Gods even though it is in uncomfortable position
5. Was buried in unmarked tomb, her temple was just for show
16—Mummy mask of Tutankhamun,
with nemes headdress and vulture and snake uraeus
Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, quartz, obsidian, turquoise, colored glass
Tomb K V 6 2 ( To m b o f K i n g Tutankhamun),
Valley of the Kings
Dynasty 18
(c.1336-1327 BCE)
Important:
1. Had to use colored glass for some of it because they needed to finish it because of early death
2. Has gold skin, gods were thought to have gold skin, represented as a god
3. Famous because found his hidden tomb with many valuable historical pieces in it
4. Died at young age because was very ill throughout his whole life and thought to have had chariot accident
5. Cobra and vulture on top signify upper and lower Egypt.
6. Thought to have had African features, dark skin and full lips
17—Judgment of Hunefer,
Detail from Book of the Dead
From the Tomb of Hunefer, Thebes
Papyrus
19th Dynasty
(c. 1290-1275 BCE)
Important:
1. Book was a series of spells that instructed souls on how to get to afterlife
2. This scene depicts final stage of weighing a person's heart
3. If the heart weighs too much than the that means you have been untruthful and a bad person.
4. Crocodile/lion/hippo combo animal would eat heart and prevent person from reaching final judgement
5. If someone had more money they could buy more spells to put in tomb, putting in tomb was them preparing for better afterlife
18—Temple of Ramses II,
Abu Simbel
19th Dynasty
c. 1279-1213 BCE
Important:
1. 4 statues of him all 65ft tall
2. Temple was carved from living rock
3. Made while he was still alive, not normal to do that, had a confidence about himself that made him build it while alive
4. Estimated to have around 200 children and ruled for 67 years
5. Inside has more statues inside, Ramses sitting with other Gods.
6. Made himself equal to the Gods
7. Twice a year moon would light up Ramses statue and two other gods, just not God of death, very advanced engineering
19—Early Cycladic “folded arm” figurine
marble,
c. 2500-2200 BCE
Height c. 15 inches
Important:
1. A women's body, shows Minoan's focused on importance of Women
2. Very geometric looking, still ascetically pleasing to this day
3. Originally had painted lines on face, women had some type of tattooing or scaring
4. Mathematically made to make all parts of it even and visually pleasing
5. An unnatural pose, possibly made to be held and not just displayed
20—Bull leaping fresco,
Knossos Palace,
painted plaster Third Palace Period, c. 1450-1350 BCE
Important:
1.
21—“Snake Goddesses”,
Temple Repository, Knossos Palace. faience (silica-based ceramic),
c. 1700-1600 BCE
22—“The Crocus Pickers”
fresco
Akrotiri, Thera(Santorini)
c. 1600-1500 BCE
23—“Lions as the hunter and the hunted”
Mycenaean dagger
bronze and niello technique
Mycenae, Grave Circle A, Grave IV
c. 1600-1500 BCE
24—“Mask of Agamemnon”
Grave Circle A, Mycenae
gold
c. 1600-1500 BCE