Art History Review: Near East
Theme: SABAN. (Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian,
Persian)
Characteristics:
Characteristics Power, Authority, Historical
Vocab to Know:
Know HIERATIC SCALE, ziggurats, votive, registers, cylinder seal,
low relief (or bas relief), palace complex, lamassus
Sumer: 3500 - 2340 BCE
• White Temple at Uruk
• Vase from Warka
• Eshnunna Votive Statuettes
• Standard of Ur
• Great Lyre with Bull’s Head
Akkadian: 2332 - 2180 BCE
• Head of Ruler (Sargon?)
• Stele of Naram-Sin
Assyrian: 1400-600 BCE
• Palace Complex of Sargon II
• Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions
• The Dying Lioness
• Lamassus
Neo-Babylonian: 619-539 BCE
• Ishtar Gate
Pesians: 538-332 BCE
• Palace Complex, Persepolis
• Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute
Babylonian: 2025-1594 BCE
• Code of Hammurabi