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| Map of the ancient Near East and the Middle East. | ||
( http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images2/mapane.jpg ) | ||
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| Map of the ancient Near East and the Middle East. | ||
( http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/UR/Maps-ane.html ) | ||
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| 2.1 Neolithic plastered skull, Jericho, c. 7000 B.C. | ||
( http://www.usyd.edu.au/nicholson/collection/jericho.html ) | ||
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| 2.2 Reconstruction of Catal Huyuk | ||
( http://ltc.smm.org/visualize/node/31 ) | ||
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| 2.3 Anatolian goddess giving birth, from Catal Huyuk | ||
( http://www.pbase.com/andrys/image/38738750 ) | ||
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| 2.5 Cone mosaics, Uruk. | ||
| from Temple of Eanna, Uruk ( http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images1/conemosEannaUruk3500.jpg ) | ||
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| 2.6 Carved vase, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C. | ||
( http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images1/alabVaseUruk35-3000.jpg ) | ||
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| 2.7 Female head, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C. | ||
( http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ue/head01.jpg ) | ||
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| 2.8-2.9 The White Temple on its ziggurat, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C. | ||
( http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/uruk.html ) | ||
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| 2.10 Cylinder impression and seal from Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C. | ||
| Other cylinder seals from the Morgan Library collection. ( http://www.morganlibrary.org/collections/ancient/html/index.html ) | ||
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| 2.12 Group of statues from the Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, c. 2700 - 2500 B.C. | ||
( http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A12332.html ) | ||
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| 2.14 Lyre soundbox, from the Tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur, c. 2685 B.C. | ||
( http://www.museum.upenn.edu ) | ||
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| 2.16 Head of an Akkadian ruler (front), Kuyunjik, Iraq, c. 2250 B.C. | ||
( http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/spr98/105/iraq.html ) | ||
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| 2.18 Head of Gudea, Lagash, c. 2150 B.C. | ||
( http://www.mfa.org/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=155973&did=200 ) | ||
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| 2.20 Nanna ziggurat, Ur, c. 2100-2050 B.C. | ||
( http://www.hope.edu/bandstra/RTOT/CH1/CH1_F4.JPG ) | ||
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| 2.22 Lion Gate (Royal Gate), Hattusas, Boghazkay, Turkey, c. 1400 B.C. | ||
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattusa ) | ||
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| 2.24 King Assurnasirpal II, Nimrud, Iraq, c. 883 - 859 B.C. | ||
( http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/world/neareast/near.html ) | ||
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| 2.27 Dying Lioness (detail of the Great Lion Hunt), from the palace of King Assurbanipal ... | ||
( http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient/NE/NE072.html ) | ||
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| 2.28 Plan of Sargon II's palace. | ||
( http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images2/khorsabadreconstr.jpg ) | ||
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| 2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C. | ||
( http://www.ishtartemple.org/IshtarGate.htm ) | ||
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| 2.33 Stag, Kostromskaya, Russia, 7th century B.C. | ||
( http://pages.sssnet.com/7genex7/stag.html ) | ||
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| 2.34 Stag, 4th Century B.C., gold, silver, bronze, and wood. | ||
( http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Golden%20Deer/1.R.htm ) | ||
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| 2.35 Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius, Persepolis (in modern Iran), c. 500 B.C. | ||
( http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/PAAI/PAAI_Persepolis.html ) | ||
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| 2.35 Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius, Persepolis (in modern Iran), c. 500 B.C. | ||
( http://tehran.stanford.edu/imagemap/perspolis.html ) | ||
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| 2.36 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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| 2.37 Bull capital, Persepolis, c. 500 B.C. | ||
( http://www.iranonline.com/iran/Fars/Persepolis/persp02.jpg ) | ||
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| 2.38 Achaemenid drinking vessel, Persian Hamadam, 5th century B.C. | ||
( http://tehran.stanford.edu/Images/Ancient/golden_cup.gif ) | ||
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