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Date
Style
Time Era
Meaning

Time Worn Artifacts

By: Courtni Benson

Title: Hall of Bulls

Date: 15,000 BCE
Style: Utilitarian
Time Era: Neolithic
Meaning: Famous paleolithic art, a
part of the largest collection of
paleolithic drawings of history.

Title: Catal Hoyuk, Anatolia

Date: 6500-5500 BCE
Style: Turkey Architecture,
Utilitarian
Time Era: Neolith
Meaning: Represents one of the
first early neolithic full
settlements.

Title: Stonehenge
Date: 1800-1400 BCE
Style: Utilitarian
Time Era: Prehistoric
Meaning: This Stone Circle was
considered to hold magic power
and had the capability to heal.
When adding water to the circle
the sickness would be bathed
away.

Title: Cycladic Idol

Date: 2500-1100 BCE
Style: Cycladic Islands
Time Era: Cycladic, Canon of
Proportion
Meaning: There is the idea and
argument that the figurines are
either linked to goddesses or
symbolize fertility.

Title: Pyramids
Date: 4 Egyptian Time periods
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Egyptian - Both new and
old
Meaning: Burial place for
members of society, signs of
remembrance

Title: King Menkaure and Queen

Date: 2472 B.C.
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Old Kingdom Egypt
Meaning: Meaning of royalty and
eternity.

Title: Mortuary Temple

Date: 1480 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Egyptian
Meaning: A place of worship
during life and a place where
people could be worshiped after
death.

Title: Akhenaton
Date: 1356 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Egyptian
Meaning: An idolic sculpture that
very accurately portrayed the
pharaoh and his position as
pharaoh. Explicit detail.

Title: Bust of Queen Nefertiti

Date: 1344 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Egyptian
Meaning: Idolic sculpture of
Akhenatonss wife queen Nefertiti.
Showing her classic profile and
the linear patterns used.

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Title: Abu Simbel Temples

Date: 1257 BCE
Style: Utilitarian
Time Era: New Kingdom/ Old
Kingdom
Meaning: Contain and minimize
impacts of the rising and falling of
Nile river.

Title: Samaritan Solar System

Date: 3800 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Babylonian
Meaning: Depicted the Sumers
idea of the solar system and
functions there of.

Title: White Temple and Ziggurat

Date: 3200 - 3000 BCE
Style: Ancient Summeritan
Time Era: Mesopotamian
Meaning: Focal Point of Cities, a
Temple that towered above other
structures within the city. More
than one level (idea that each
level had a different
representation. Represented
Different Gods.

Title: Statues from Abu Temple

Date: 2900-2600 BCE
Style: Summeritan
Time Era: Mesopotamian
Meaning: Cylindrical figures that
stood in place of deities,
considered donor worshipers.
Small distinctions made between
the male and female figures.

Title: Sargon of Akkad

Date: 2340-2284 BC
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Mesopotamia
Meaning: Iconic sculpture of
Sargon reign as king in the
Neo-Assyrian culture. Represents
his rise into power.

Title: Stele - Law Code of

Hammurabi
Date: 1760 BCE
Style: Babylonia
Time Era: Mesopotamian
Meaning: A sculpture codification
for the laws of Mesopotamia. To
uncloud the current laws, they
became scribed on a relief
sculpture.

Title: Ishtar Gate

Date: 575 B.C.E.
Style: Utilitarian
Time Era: Babylonian
Meaning: Pride and power of
Nebuchadnezzar's rule, this being
a part of the 8 double gated
entrances to Babylon, showing
greatness to the city.

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Title: Atlantis Branch

Date: 1500-1100 BC
Style: Utilitarian/ Decorative
Time Era: Minoian
Meaning: Rise of palace and
culture, a need for more space
appearing. Each art phase being
shown through the different
pottery.

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Title: Kouros Figure

Date: 600 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Ancient Greece
Meaning: Devotional or funerary
statues that replicated young
men. These were the start of
sculptures in Greece and the idea
of it follows closely behind how
Egypt represented their
sculptures.

Title: The Parthenon

Date: 448-432 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Greece/Roman
Meaning: The temple was sacred
to the goddess Athena. The
temple thus being seen as a
protection. Also an influential
building throughout the rest of
Greeces/ Romans architecture.

Title: The Three Goddesses

Date: 438-431 BCE
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Greece/ Roman
Meaning: A figural group

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Title: Laocoon and his Sons

Date: 27 AD
Style: Canon of Proportion
Time Era: Hellenistic
Meaning: GreeK God strangling
the Trojan leader after him
sending the Trojan horse.