1. Artist: n/a
Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 6'6" (1.98 m)
Date: c. 2220–2184 BCE
Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris

2. Artist: n/a
Title: The Ancient Near East
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a

3. Shifts in Political Power
Its capital.
Shifts in Political Power
Sumerian- The Sumerians control the south, filling their independent city-states with new technology, literacy and art and architecture.
Eclipsed by the Akkadians (neighbors to the north)
Akkadian- When Northern invaders attacked the Akkadians, the Sumerians regained local power for a while. Ur and Lagash thrived during this period under strong leadership.
King Urnammu ruled Ur and Gudea ruled Lagash.
Babylonian- The Amorites next dominated the south. Their leader Hamurabi established the city of Babylon as its capital.
Assyria- The Assyrians dominate northern Mesopotamia. By the end of the 9th century they controlled all of Mesopotamia.
Neo-Babylonia- The Medes allied with the Babylonians and Scythians (from western Iran and western Ukraine and Russia) capture Nineveh and The Assyrian rule ends.
Persian- In the 6th century the Persians seized power in Mesopotamia.
Artist: n/a
Title: The Ancient Near East Power Changes
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a

4. Artist: n/a
Title: Ruins of the White Temple
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE
Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq)

5. Artist: n/a
Title: Technique: Cuneiform Writing
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a

6. Artist: n/a
Title: Face of a woman, (known as the Warka Head)
Medium: Marble
Size: height approx. 8" (20.3 cm)
Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE
Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003)

7. Artist: n/a
Title: Carved vase (known as the Uruk Vase)
Medium: Alabaster
Size: height 36' (91 cm)
Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE
Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003)

8. Artist: n/a
Title: Votive Figures
Medium: Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
Size: height of largest figure approx. 30" ( 76.3 cm)
Date: c. 2900–2600 BCE
Source/Museum: The Square Temple, Eshnunna (present-day Tell Asmar, Iraq). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

9. Artist: n/a
Title: The Great Lyre with bull’s head
Medium: Wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in modern wood support
Size: height of head 14" (35.6 cm) height of front panel 13" (33 cm) maximum length
of lyre 55½" (140 cm), height of upright back arm 46½" (117 cm)
Date: c. 2550–2400 BCE
Source/Museum: Royal tomb, Ur (present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq) / University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

10. Artist: n/a
Title: Front panel, the sound box of the Great Lyre
Medium: Wood with shell inlaid in bitumen
Size: height 12¼ X 4½" (31.1 X 11cm)
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Ur (present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq) / University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia (T4-29C)

11. “ To the victors Belong the Spoils”
Ethics of
“ To the victors Belong the Spoils”
Artist: n/a
Title: Photo of face of a woman (known as the Warka Head)
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Displayed by Iraqi authorities on its recovery

12. Artist: n/a
Title: Cylinder seal from the tomb of queen Puabi
Medium: Lapis lazuli
Size: height, 1⅝" (4.1 cm)
Date: c BCE
Source/Museum: Ur (present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq) / British Museum

13. Artist: n/a
Title: Disk of Enhueduanna
Medium: Alabaster
Size: 10” diameter
Date: BCE
Source/Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology

14. Artist: n/a
Title: Head of a man (known as Akkadian ruler)
Medium: Copper Alloy
Size: height 14⅜" (36.5 cm)
Date: c. 2300–2200 BCE
Source/Museum: Nineveh (present-day Kuyunjik, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad

15. Artist: n/a
Title: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 2100–2050 BCE
Source/Museum: Present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq

16. Artist: n/a
Title: Votive Statue of Gudea
Medium: Diorite
Size: height 29" (73.7 cm)
Date: c BCE
Source/Museum: Girsu (present-day Telloh, Iraq) / Musée du Louvre, Paris

17. Artist: n/a
Title: Stele of Hammurabi
Medium: Diorite
Size: height of stele approx. 7' (2.13 m) height of relief 28“ (71.1 cm)
Date: c. 1792–1750 BCE
Source/Museum: Susa (present-day Shush, Iran) / Musée du Louvre, Paris

18. Artist: n/a
Title: Lion Gate
Medium: Limestone
Size: n/a
Date: c BCE
Source/Museum: Hattusha (near present-day Boghazkoy, Turkey)

19. Artist: n/a
Title: Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions
Medium: Alabaster
Size: height approx. 39" (99.1 cm)
Date: c. 850 BCE
Source/Museum: Palace complex of Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (present-day Nimrud, Iraq) / The British Museum, London

20. Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction drawing of the citadel and palace complex of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (Present-Day Khorsabad, Iraq). C. 721–706 BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Courtesy the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

21. Artist: n/a
Title: Enemies Crossing the Euphrates to escape Assyrian Archers
Medium: Alabaster
Size: 39” high
Date: c BCE
Source/Museum: Palace Complex Assurnasirpal II, present day Nimrud, Iraq

22. Artist: n/a
Title: Human-Headed Winged Lion (Lamassu)
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 10'3½" (3.11 m)
Date: 883–859 BCE
Source/Museum: Colossal Gateway Figure, Palace of Assurnasirpal II, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Kalhu (present-day Nimrud, Iraq). / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1932 ( )

23. Artist: n/a
Title: Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden
Medium: Alabaster
Size: height approx. 21" (53.3 cm)
Date: c. 647 BCE
Source/Museum: The Palace at Nineveh (present-day Kuyunjik, Iraq) / The British Museum, London

24. Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction drawing of Babylon in the 6th century BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Courtesy the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

25. Artist: n/a
Title: Ishtar Gate and throne room wall
Medium: Glazed brick
Size: height of gate originally 40 feet (12.2 m) with towers rising 100 feet (30.5 m)
Date: c. 575 BCE
Source/Museum: Reconstructed in a Berlin museum, originally from Babylon (Present-day Iraq) Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz

26. Artist: n/a
Title: Air View of the ceremonial complex, Persepolis
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 518–c. 460 BCE
Source/Museum: Iran

27. Artist: n/a
Title: Apadana (audience hall) of Darius and Xerxes
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 518–c. 460 BCE
Source/Museum: Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis Iran

28. Artist: n/a
Title: Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 8'4" (2.54 m)
Date: 491–486 BCE
Source/Museum: Detail of a relief from the stairway leading to the Apadana (ceremonial complex), Persepolis, Iran / Courtesy the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago