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The Ancient Middle EastEast Sayid!... Or the Rise of Civilization
The Fertile Crescent or The Cradle of Civilization
White Temple and Ziggurat
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Reconstruction Drawing
Uruk, Iraq3,200-3,000 BCE
Statuettes of two WorshippersFrom the Square Temple at Eshnunna
Modern Tell Asmar, Iraq
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
Male figure is approx 2’6” tall
2,700 BCE
Head of an Akkadian Ruler
Ninevah (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq)
Copper
1’ 2 ⅜” tall
2,250-2,200 BCE
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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Pink Sandstone
Susa, Iran
6’ 7” Tall
2,254-2,218 BCE
Housed in the Louvre, Paris, France
Stele w/Law Code of Hammurabi
Basalt
Susa, Iran
Approx 7’ 4”
1,780 BCE
Housed in the Louvre, Paris, France
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Lamassu (winged, human-headed bull)
From the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsbad), Iraq
Limestone
Approx. 13’ 10” tall
720-705 BCE
House in the Louvre, Paris, France
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Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions
Relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Ninevah (modern Kuyunjik), Iraq
Gypsum
5’ 4” tall
645-640 BCE
Housed in the British Museum, London, England
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Ishtar Gate
Babylon, Iraq
Glazed Brick with lapis lazuli
575 BCE
Houses in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany