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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pebble resembling a Human Face | South Africa c. 3,000,000 BCE Paleolithic |
| Human With Feline Head | Germany c. 30,000 BCE Paleolithic |
| Nude Woman | Willendorf Austria c. 25,000 BCE Paleolithic |
| Horses In Peche-Merle Cave | France c. 22,000 BCE Paleolithic |
| Hall of the Bulls In Lascaux Cave | France c. 15,000 BCE Paleolithic |
| Rhinoceros,wounded man, and bison In Lascaux Caves | France c. 15,000 BCE Paleolithic |
| Stonehenge | England c. 2000 BCE Neolithic to Bronze Age |
| White Temple and Ziggurat | Uruk (today Warka, Iraq) c. 3000 BCE Sumerian |
| Ziggurat | Ur (Iraq) c. 2100 BCE Neo-Sumerian |
| Female Head of Goddess Inanna | Uruk (today Warka, Iraq) c. 3000 BCE Sumerian |
| Statuettes from the Square Temple | Eshnunna c. 2700 BCE Sumerian |
| Standard of Ur | Iraq c.2600 BCE Sumerian |
| Bull-Headed Lyre and Sound Box | Ur (Iraq) c.2600 BCE Sumerian |
| Stele of Naram-Sin | Iran c.2200 BCE Akkadian |
| Stele of Hammurabi | Iran c.1780 BCE Old Babylonian |
| Citadel of Sargon (reconstruction drawing) | Khorsabad (Iraq) c.700 BCE Assyrian |
| Lamassu from Citadel of Sargon | Khorsabad (Iraq) c.700 BCE Assyrian |
| Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions, relief from Palace of Ashurbanipal | Nineveh (Iraq) c.650 BCE Assyrian |
| Ishtar Gate (restored) | Babylon (Iraq) c.575 BCE Neo-Babylonian |
| Palette of King Narmer | Egypt c.3000 BCE Predynastic |
| Stepped pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser | Saqqara c.2600 BCE Early Dynastic |
| Great Pyramids at Gizeh | c.2500 BCE Old Kingdom |
| Khafreh enthroned | Gizeh c.2500 BCE Old Kingdom |
| Menkaure and queen | Gizeh c.2500 BCE Old Kingdom |
| Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt | Saqqara c.2400 BCE Old Kingdom |
| Temple of Amen-Re | Karnak 15th century BCE & later New Kingdom |
| Funerary banquet, Tomb of Nebamun | Thebes c.1400 BCE New Kingdom |
| Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut | Deir el-Bahri c.1460 BCE New Kingdom |
| Akhenaten and his family | c.1350 BCE New Kingdom, Amarna period |
| Nefertiti | c.1350 BCE New Kingdom, Amarna period |
| Painted chest from Tomb of Tutankhamen | Thebes c.1330 BCE New Kingdom |
| Figurine of a woman | Syros Greece c.2500 BCE Cycladic |
| Palace of Knossos | Crete c.1600-1400 BCE Minoan |
| Bull-leaping fresco | Knossos Crete c.1600-1400 BCE Minoan |
| "Snake Goddess" figurine | Knossos Crete c.1600-1400 BCE Minoan |
| Dagger blade with lion hunt | c.1500-1300 BCE Mycenaean |
| Lion Gate | Mycenae, Greece c.1500-1300 BCE Mycenaean |
| Citadel at Tiryns | Greece c.1500-1300 BCE Mycenaean |
| Geometric Krater | c.740 BCE Geometric |
| Kouros | c.600 BCE Archaic Greek |
| Peplos Kore | c.530 BCE Archaic Greek |
| Temple of Hera I, Paestum | Italy c.550 BCE Archaic Greek |
| West pediment of the Temple of Artemis | Corfu c.600 BCE Archaic Greek |
| Temple of Aphaia at Aegina | c.500-490 BCE Archaic Greek |
| Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (black-figure amphora) | by Exekias c.530 BCE Archaic Greek |
| Three Revelers (red-figure amphora) | by Euthymides c.510 BCE Archaic Greek |
| Acropolis, Athens, model of sanctuary | Classical Greek Period |
| Parthenon | Athens by Iktinos and Kallikrates c.440 BCE Classical Greek |
| Parthenon pediment: three goddesses | c.440 BCE Classical Greek |
| Parthenon metope: Lapith fighting a centaur | c.440 BCE Classical Greek |
| Parthenon frieze: elders and maidens | c.440 BCE Classical Greek |
| Charioteer from Delphi | c.470 BCE Classical Greek |
| "Spear Bearer" (Doryphoros) Roman copy of original | by Polykleitos c.440 BCE Classical Greek |
| Hermes and Infant Dionysos | by Praxiteles c.340 BCE Late Classical |
| Head of Alexander the Great | Pella 3rd century BCE version Late Classical or Hellenistic |
| Battle of Issos (Alexander Mosaic) | Roman mosaic copy of a greek painting c.300 BCE Late Classical |
| Nike of Samothrace | c.190 BCE Hellenistic |
| Gallic chieftain killing himself and wife | Roman copy of original by Epigonos c.220 BCE Hellenistic |
| Altar of Zeus at Pergamon w/detail Athena Battling Alkyoneos | Turkey c.175 BCE Hellenistic |
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