AP ART HISTORY 1-25 – Flashcards
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Apollo 11 stones
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Culture:Namibia Date:c.25,500-25,300 B.C.E. Medium: Charcoal on stone Contained some of the oldest pieces of mobile art ever discovered in South Africa.
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Great Hall of the Bulls
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Culture:Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. Date: 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. Medium: Rock painting Dominated by two enormous bulls standing face to face, one of which measures 16 x 13 feet---the largest cave-art animal yet found.
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Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
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Culture:Tequixquiac, central Mexico. Date;14,000-7000 B.C.E. Medium:Bone Discovered accidentally in 1870 in Tequixquiac, Mexico.
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Running horned woman
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Culture:Tassilin'Ajjer, Algeria. Date: 6000-4000 B.C.E. Medium Pigment on rock On the rock walls and displays varied human and animal activity
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Beaker with ibex motifs
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Culture: Susa, Iran. Date;4200-3500 B.C.E. Medium:Painted terra cotta. Given to the deceased during a secondary burial.
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Anthropomorphic stale
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Culture: Arabian Peninsula. Date:Fourth millennium B.C.E. Medium: Sandstone Some are carved in surrounding sandstone cliffs by many Arabian tombs.
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Jade Cong
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Culture; Liangzhu,China. Date:3300-2200 B.C.E. Medium:Carved jade. Principal decoration: face pattern.
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Stonehenge
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Culture:Wiltshire,UK. Neolithic Europe. Date:c.2500-1600 B.C.E. Medium:Standstone Worked within the context of existing archaeological knowledge.
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The Ambum Stone
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Culture:Album Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Date:c.1500 B.C.E. Medium:Greywacke Discovered in a cave, it is one of the earliest known Pacific works of art.
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Tlatilco female figurine
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Culture:: Central Mexico site of Tlatilco Date::1200-900 B.C.E Medium:Ceramic Shows a fascination with physical deformities.
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Terra cotta fragment
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Culture:Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reef Islands. Date: 1000 B.C.E. Medium::Terra cotta(incised).
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White Temple and its ziggurat
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Culture:Uruk(modern Warka,Iraq). Sumerian. Date:c.3500-3000 B.C.E. Medium:Mud brick. Statues for Gods and donors were placed inside temples.
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Palette of King Narmer
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Culture: Predynastic Egypt. Date:c.3000-2920 B.C.E Medium:Greywacke. Believed to be found in the Predynastic capital of upper Egypt.
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Statues of votive figures, from the square Temple at Eahnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Irap)
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Culture: Sumerian Date:c.2700 B.C.E Medium: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone Placed in temples precincts facing alter or statue of God appearance of figures relates to anxiety of after life.
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Seated scribe
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Culture:Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. Date:c.2620-2500 B.C.E. Medium:Painted limestone Meant for the afterlife.
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Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur(Modern Tell el-Muqayyar,Iraq).
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Culture:Sumerian Date:c.2600-2400 B.C.E. Medium:Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. Likely to have been the sound box for a musical instrument.
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Great Pyramids(Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
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Culture:Giza,Egypt.. Old Kingdom,Foruth Dynasty. Date:c. 2550-2490 B.C.E. Medium: Cut limestone The most immense stone sculpture ever made by man.
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King Menkaura and queen
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Culture: Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. Date:c.2490-2472 B.C.E. Medium:Greywacke To be put in tombs.
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The Code of Hammurabi
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Culture:Babylon(modern Iran).Susian Date:c.1792-1750 B.C.E. Medium:Basalt. In this stone is carved with around 300laws, the first know set of ruler enforced laws.
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Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall.
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Culture:Karnak, nearLuxor, Egypt. Date:New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple:c. 1550 B.C.E;hall:c.1250 B.C.E. Medium Cut sandstone and mud brick. Represented a marsh in the beginning of time
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Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
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Culture:Near Luxor,Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Date:c.1473-1458 B.C.E. Medium:Sandstone,partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite. Built for the queen to commemorate her achievements and act as a mortuary for her and a sanctuary for the god Amon ra
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Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
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Culture:New Kingdom(Amarna),18th Dynasty. Date:c. 1353-1335 B.C.E. Medium:Limestone A piece that would be in someone's home
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Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
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Culture: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Date:c. 1323 B.C.E. Medium:Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones. Coffin within the king's tomb
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Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb(page from the Book of the Dead).
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Culture: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty Date:c. 1275 B.C.E. Medium:Painted papyrus scroll. Depict Hu-Nefer's last judgement
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Lamas from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur sharrukin(Modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
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Culture:Neo-Assyrian Date:c.720-705 B.C.E. Medium:Alabaster Used as a form of intimidating protection to palaces in Assyria.
