Amálie Suchánková 525961@mail.muni.cz PERIODS I. SEMINAR 2/3 Lamassu of the palace in Nimrud, Assyrian protective deity, 883-859 BC, gypsum alabaster Cave painting of a bull in Lascaux, France, 20 000-17 000 BC, charcoal, clay, natural pigments Etruscan sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife, 350–300 BC, travertine Plastered skull from Jericho, 8000-6000 BC, plaster, bone, shells Hittite Orthostat relief: seated figure holding a lotus flower, ca. 10th−9th century BC, stone White temple on the ziggurat of Uruk, Mesopotamia, 4th millenium BC Classical 480–323 BC Myrón, Diskobolos, 450 BC, marble roman copy Archaic 650-480 BC Kouros and koré, both 530 BC Hellenistic 323-30 BC Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, 230-220 BC, marble roman copy Artemision Bronze (statue of Zeus or Poseidon), around 460 BC (Classical era), bronze The Barberini Faun, 2nd century BC Hellenistic original or 2nd AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic bronze original Votive statue of a man, archaic Cypriot era, 550- 525 BC, Kunsthistorisches museum Wien Greek Kuros, 520 BC Carved relief at Persepolis, Achaemenid empire, 1st half of 6th century BC Achaemenid Lion Strangler, 500–450 BC, lapis lazuli , Greek statuette of a siren, ca. 550–500 BC, terracotta The Hagia Triada sarcophagus from Minoan Crete, 1370- 1350 BC, painted limestone The throne room in the Knossos palace, Crete, 15th century BC Detail of relief of delegation, Achaemenid dynasty, Apadana palace, Persepolis, Iran, 6th century BC Cycladic idol, 3rd millenium BC, marble The death masks of Mycenae, 16th century BC, repoussé goldFalse door of Anchet, ca. 2200 BC, limestone, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Egyptian white quartzite offering table, Roman Period, Circa Late 1st Century BC-1st Century AD, auctioned for 45 000 dollars at Christie‘s Marble Inscribed Votive Relief With Ears, Roman, around 2nd century AD Artemis of Ephesus, Roman sculpture, 2nd century AD, marble, and modern 19th century bronze restorations Fresco of Bacchus and Mount Vesuvius, House of the Centenary, Pompeii, 55-79 AD Fragment of a polychrome tomb-painting representing Nebamun, circa 1350 BC Venus of Kostenki, Russia, 25 000-20 000 BC, mammoth tusk Sumerian votive statue, Tell Asmar, Square Temple I, Shrine II ca. 2900-2600 B.C. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone Egyptian Bes amulet, ca. 1070–712 BC, faience Etruscan offering set for a tomb, bucchero terracotta, 550-500 BC One of the sandals of Tutankhamun, so-called mosaic sandals, c. 1336–1326 BC, wood, gesso, leather INTERESTING OBJECTS Liver of Piacenza, Etruscan model of a sheep's liver covered with inscriptions and subdivided into sections for use in fortune-telling, late 2nd century BC, bronze Pillar with an offering to Asclepios, marble human face placed in a niche, with dedication by Praxias, 350-300 BC Gundestrup cauldron, largest known European Iron age silver work, 200 BC- 300 AD, Gaulish/ Thracian/ Celtic origin? Lady of Baza, 4th century BC, polychromed limestone funerary sculpture Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios, Roman 1st–2nd century AD, hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use Bactrian „princesses“, 3rd millenium BC, from Bactria-Margiana region (Turkmenistan), composite seated sculptures made of calcite, chlorite/ steatite Shigir Idol, oldest known wooden sculpture, around 12 500-11 500 BC, over 5 metres high 1. 2. 3. 4.