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| 4.1 Neolithic plastered skull, Jericho, c. 7000 B.C. | ||
( http://www.universalcolorslide.com/ucs/slidedetail.asp?slidenum=P040019S ) | ||
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| 4.7 Cylinder impression and seal from Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C. | ||
( http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/02/wam/ho_1988.433.1.htm ) | ||
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| 4.8 Clay tablet with pictographic text that preceded cuneiform, probably from Jemdet Nasr... | ||
( http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/5/5.6/ ) | ||
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| 4.9 Group of statues from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar, c. 2700 – 2500 B.C. | ||
| http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/htm/Units/Upper/arts/a/history/art_hist_0203/03_Mesopotamian.... | ||
( http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/htm/Units/Upper/arts/a/history/art_hist_0203/03_Mesopotamian.... ) | ||
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| http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A12332.html | ||
( http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A12332.html ) | ||
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| 4.11a Head of an Akkadian ruler (Sargon I?) (front), Kuyunjik, Iraq, c. 2250 B.C. | ||
( http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/spr98/105/iraq.html ) | ||
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| 4.12 Victory stele of Naram-Sin, c. 2300 - 2200 B.C. | ||
( http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ao/sb0004/sb0004.htm ) | ||
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| 4.13 Head of Gudea, Lagash, c. 2150 B.C. | ||
( http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ue/statue02.jpg ) | ||
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| 4.14 Gudea with temple plan, Lagash, Iraq, c. 2150 B.C. | ||
( http://www.louvre.fr/img/photos/collec/ao/grande/ao3293.jpg ) | ||
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| 4.15 Stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi, c. 1792 - 1750 B.C. | ||
( http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/nc/Kinard/hammurabi.htm ) | ||
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| 4.18 King Assurnasirpal II hunting lions, Nimrud, Iraq, c. 883 - 859 B.C. | ||
( http://www.suffragio.it/bassorilievi/arteassiri.htm ) | ||
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| 4.21 Beaker, Susa, capital of Elam (now in Iran), c. 5000 - 4000 B.C. | ||
( http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A25965_72dpi.html ) | ||
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| 4.22 Kneeling Bull, southwest Iran, Proto-Elamite, 3100 - 2999 B.C. | ||
( http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=3&full=0&item=66%2E173 ) | ||
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| 4.23 Stag, Kostromskaya, Russia, 7th century B.C. | ||
( http://pages.sssnet.com/7genex7/stag.html ) | ||
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| 4.24 Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius, Persepolis (in modern Iran), c. 500 B.C. | ||
| http://www.nd.edu/~clongstr/Personal/apadana.htm ( http://oznet.net/iran/amedeat.htm ) | ||
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| 4.25 Bull capital, Persepolis, c. 500 B.C. | ||
( http://www.iranonline.com/iran/Fars/Persepolis/persp02.jpg ) | ||
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| 4.26 Royal guards, relief on the stairway to the Audience Hall of Darius, Persepolis. | ||
( http://tehran.stanford.edu/Images/Ancient/soldier0.gif ) | ||
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