This document contains flashcards on ancient art from the Paleolithic era through the Achaemenid Persian Empire. The flashcards provide information on time periods, locations, and key artworks and artifacts from these ancient cultures, including paintings from Lascaux Cave, sculptures from Sumeria and Assyria, and architectural structures like ziggurats and Persepolis. The flashcards appear to be from an introductory art history course covering ancient to medieval art.
17. Ancient Near East: Sumeria
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27. Ancient Near East: Akkadian Empire
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30. Ancient Near East: Neo-Sumerian
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32. Ancient Near East: Babylonian
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34. Ancient Near East: Assyrian
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38. Ancient Near East: Achaemenid
(Persian) Empire
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39. Title: Cyrus Cylinder
Period: Achaemenid (Persian), c. 539 BCE
Location: British Museum
Achaemenid (Persian) Empire
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43. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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47. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Palette of Narmer, c. 3,000-2920 BCE
Egypt, Pre-Dynastic 2’ 5” high (Egyptian
Museum, Cairo)
48. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Palette of Narmer, c. 3,000-2920 BCE
Egypt, Pre-Dynastic 2’ 5” high (Egyptian
Museum, Cairo)
49. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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The Egyptian Canon of Proportions
50. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of King
Djoser, Saqqara, Third Dynasty, Old Kingdom, c.
2630 2611 BCE
51. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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The Great Pyramids at Giza, c. 2552-2528 BCE
52. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Diagram of the Pyramid of Khufu
53. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Great Sphinx, Giza, c. 2520-2494 BCE
54. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Seated Statue of Khafre, 4th Dynasty, Old
Kingdom c. 2520-2494 BCE
(Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
55. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Menkaure and Khamerernebty (?), 4th
Dynasty, Old Kingdom, c 2490-2472
BCE (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
56. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Know the components of the mastaba tomb
57. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Tomb of Perneb, with false door and offering scene, 5th
Dynasty, Old Kingdom, c. 2382-2323 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
58. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Ptah-hotep seated before offerings and offering
bearers, from his tomb, Saqqara, 5th Dynasty.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
59. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Ti Hippopotamus Hunting, painted relief from the
tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Dynasty 5, Old Kingdom, c 245-
2350 BCE
60. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Painted limestone statue of Nenkheftka, 5th
Dynasty, Old Kingdom, c. 2400 BCE
British Museum
61. Ancient Egypt – Old Kingdom
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Pair statue of Ptahkhenuwy and his
wife, Dynasty 5, Old Kingdom, 2465–
2323 BCE
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
65. Ancient Egypt – Middle Kingdom
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Head of Sesostris III, 12th Dynasty,
Middle Kingdom, c. 1910-1839 BCE
66. Ancient Egypt – Middle Kingdom
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Stela of Mentuwoser, 12th Dynasty, Middle
Kingdom, 1944 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
67. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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68. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el
Bahri. 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, c. 1473-1485
BCE
69. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Seated Statue of Hatshepsut, 18th Dynasty,
New Kingdom, c. 1473-1458 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
70. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude, 18th
Dynasty, New Kingdom, c. 1479-1458 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
71. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut, 18th
Dynasty, New Kingdom, c. 1479-1458 BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
72. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Know the attributes of the god Amun-Re
73. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Diagram of an Egyptian pylon temple
74. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Model of a hypostyle hall
75. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Colossal statue of Amenhotep
IV/Akhenaten with nemes and double
crown, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
76. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Akhenaten and his family worshipping the sun disc
Aten,18th Dynasty, New Kingdom c. 1353-1335 BCE
Egyptian Museum, Berlin
77. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Death Mask of Tutanhamun, from the
innermost coffin of his tomb in Thebes, 18th
Dynasty, New Kingdom c. 1323 BCE
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
78. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Mortuary Temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel
19th Dynasty, New Kingdom, c. 1290-1224 BCE
79. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Page from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer,
showing judgment before
Osiris, 19th Dynasty, around 1275 BCE.
(British Museum)
80. Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
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Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes, from the Tomb
of Nabamun, Thebes, Dynasty 18, New Kingdom,
c. 1350 BCE (British Museum)