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- Apollo 11 Stones CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -stones with charcoal drawings of animals. -geometric designs
- 4-5" Function:
- depict animals =some of world's oldest works of art Content:
- animal figures with human legs added on probably later Context:
- found in Apollo 11 caves in Namibia -probably were made about 25500 BCE (oldest representational art in Africa) and buried in these caves -named because it was discovered at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing
- Great Hall of the Bulls CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -naturalistic charcoal drawings in a cave -natural materials: plants, charcoal, iron ore -twisted perspective
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- human are stick figures while animals are realistic looking Content:
- pictures animals in motion
- pictures on top of pictures (all from different artists from many time periods) -cows, bulls, horses, deer -650 paintings Function:
- to show an animal ritual (very unusual to find pictures of humans/hunting) -ancestral animal worship Context: -sacred place (deep in a cave)- in situ -not a dwelling because the creators of these were nomads -Paleolithic Europe- Lascaux, France.
- Camelid sacrum CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form:
- carved bone Function: -spiritual mask
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- in situ on canyon walls in the Sahara
- 6000-4000 BCE (neolithic)
- Bushel with ibex motifs CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -painted terra cotta, clay
- geometric forms
- set in registers, controlled and repeated planar composition Function: -funerary object Content: -dog figures, mountain goat, cranes Context:
- Susa, Iran in 4200-3500 BCE -neolithic -new technology: use of potter's wheel
- Anthropomorphic stele CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -sandstone
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- 3 of them all 3ft tall -belted robe with knife hanging from it Function:
- used in incense trade -religious/burial practices Context: -found on trade routes in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia -fourth millennium
- Jade cong CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form:
- carved jade -low reliefs -abstract designs
- square with a circle inside Function: -jade usually appears in burials of high ranked people Content:
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-Wiltshire, UK in 2500-1600 BCE
- The Ambum stone CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -greywacke stone Content: -sculpted to look like an anteater -human/animal characteristics (mostly animal) Function:
- objects like these are believed to have supernatural power
- used as a spirit stone in rituals Context:
- Ambun Valley, Papua New Guinea around 1500 BCE
- Tlatico female figure CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -ceramic Content:
- pinched waist and big hips with two-heads
- no hands or feet
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-naked except for jewelry Function:
- show fertility -two heads represent life and death that happens everyday Context:
- Central Mexico in 1200-900 BCE -many of the other figures show deformities like this
- Terra cotta fragment CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -terra cotta with dentate stamping Content: -dentate designs (circles, hatching, dots) Function: -unknown Context:
- Lapita peoples
- Solomon Islands, Reef Islands in 1000 BCE
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-organized in registers -hierarchic scale -low relief, twisted perspective Content: -Front: Narmer (on large scale) looking on the beheaded bodies of his enemies wearing crown of lower Egypt, harnessed lionesses (symbol of unification), bull knowcking down a city fortress (Narmer knocking over enemies) -Back: Hawk=Horus, Narmer wearing bowling pin crown (symbol of unification), stands barefoot (he is a divine king), palette for eye makeup, hieroglyphics Function: -represents the unification of Egypt and country's growth as a powerful nation Context: -found in temple of Horus -Old Kingdom of Egypt -3000 BCE
- Statues of votive figures CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form:
- bilateral symmetry
- eyes exaggeration (beholding the divine)
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-gypsum and black limestone Content: -the hands are placed in prayful gesture
- elite male and female figures Function: -placed in ziggurat to resemble the people that aren't allowed to be in the ziggurats Context;
- found in the Square Temple of Eshunna (modern day Tell Asmur, Iraq) -2700 BCE
- Seated Scribe CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -painted limestone -crystal limestone eyes Content: -royal scribe -depicted with sagging body (realistic not ideal), thin face -holding tools to show he is ready to write Function:
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- found in the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern day Iraq)
- 2600-2400 BCE Sumerian
- Great Pyramid (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -square base with 4 sloped sides (represents rays of sun) -polished limestone Content: -pyramids with adjoining funerary complex; get to these through secret passageways -Great Sphinx: human head with lion head -descending order on West side of Nile Function: -maintain and protect tombs for eternity -Great Sphinx: protecter the pyramids behind it Context: -built by Khufu, Khafre, and Menkuare (each temple name after) -Khufu temple (oldest and largest)
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-Old Kingdom- 2500BCE -Giza, Egypt
- Menkaura and queen CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -greywacke -under life-size -symmetrical -Egyptian style: one foot in front of the other Content: -king and queen same height, idealized figures -pharaoh crown -wife gives simple affectionate gesture Function: -temple sculpture -symbolize his power and kingship Context: -Old Kingdom 2500 BCE
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-symmetrical plan, axial plan -open ceilings -colossal columns with sunken relief Content: -134 sandstone columns -inscriptions/images of kings and gods on walls and columns -gates (suggesting old world to new world) Function: -used for festivities and prayer -only priests and pharoahs allowed Context: -Karnak, near Luxor -New Kingdom 1250 BCE -East side of the Nile
- Mortuary Temple of Hatsheput CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -sandstone -red granite statue
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-built into rock cliff Function: -mortuary temple for Hatsheput but she wasn't buried there -statue shows her power in male ways (beard and kneeling is priest-like gesture Content: -statue of Hatsheput kneeling: offering plants to Amen, the sun god -ascent up to temple -chapels and shrines dedicated to her -hypostyle hall Context: -site specific -across from Amun temple
- Akhenaton, Neferiti, and three daughters CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -sunken relief piece, limestone, hieroglyphics Content: -couple receiving blessing from Aten (the sun god-rays shown) -show husband and wife seated with their children
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- Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer (page from Book of the Dead) CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -painted papyrus scroll -continuous narrative Content: -Hu-Nefer being lead to final judgement -heart weighed on scale against Osiris (test to see if has a heavy heart) -sin must weigh less than feather -Hu-Nefer is accepted into afterlife Function: -guide people to the afterlife and make journey from life to death Context: -New Kingdom 1275 BCE -found in Hu-Nefer's tomb -from the Book of the Dead
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- Lamassu CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form:
- alabaster -limestone Content: -god-like figures -animal body, human head -5 legs Function; -support doorways of Assyrian palaces -intimidate those who enter Context:
- from the citadel of Sargon II (modern day Iraq)
- 720-705 BCE -Sumerian
- Athenian Agora CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Form: -long buildings (stoa) -covered places- public markets
