Ancient Near Eastern Art

#świdnica #itpts #headchain #in august #takasquid #burqonet #fafnear #not a lie #sculpure #oaikdfjg

Webcam Model(Anavi_) is live
LIVE
Alabaster statue of a male priest, from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk. Artist unknown; ca. 3

Link #art #art history #ancient art #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #uruk #sculpture #portrait sculpture #alabaster #stonework #carving #jemdet nasr #iraq museum

Head of a ruler.  Artist unknown; ca. 2300-2000 BCE (Early Bronze Age).  From Iran or Iraq; now in t

Link #art #art history #ancient art #bronze age #bronze age art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #sculpture #portrait sculpture #metalwork #metropolitan museum of art

Diorite sculpture of the Sumerian monarch Gudea.  Artist unknown; 2090 BCE (Neo-Sumerian period).  T

Link #art #art history #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #sumer #sumerian art #sculpture #statue #portrait sculpture #diorite #stonework #carving #metropolitan museum of art

Ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seal with impression, depicting a banquet scene.  Artist unknown; ca.

Link #art #art history #ancient art #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #early dynastic iii #cylinder seal #carving #louvre #louvre museum #musee du louvre

Statue of a Sumerian male worshiper from the hoard in Nintu Temple V at ancient Tutub, Mesopotamia =

Link #art #art history #ancient art #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamian art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #sumer #sumerian art #early dynastic #statue #sculpture #carving #iraq museum

An Assyrian soldier conducts captives in a boat.  Gypsum alabaster relief, artist unknown; ca. 668-6

Link #art #art history #ancient art #assyria #assyrian empire #neo assyrian empire #assyrian art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamian art #sculpture #relief sculpture #stonework #carving #metropolitan museum of art

Mesopotamian statuette (alabaster, gold, terracotta, and rubies) of a nude woman, possibly the godde

Link #art #art history #near east #ancient near east #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #parthian #parthian empire #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #ishtar #sculpture #statuette #alabaster #louvre #louvre museum #musee du louvre

Canaanite scarab (steatite) featuring a walking lion design.  Artist unknown; ca. 1648-1539 BCE (Egy

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #canaanite art #scarab #carving #steatite #animals in art #lion #lions #walters art museum

Unidentified Mesopotamian deity, possibly the solar deity Shamash, sitting on a stool and holding th

Link #art #art history #ancient art #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamian art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #old babylonian #mesopotamian religion #shamash #plaque #sculpture #relief sculpture #sulaymaniyah museum

Proto-Elamite statuette of a horned, striding figure.  Artist unknown; ca. 3000-2800 BCE.  Now in th

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #proto-elamite #sculpture #statuette #figurine #metalwork #bronze #bronzework #art institute of chicago

Assyrian lamassu from the Throne Room (Room B) of the North-West Palace at Nimrud (present-day Iraq)

Link #art #art history #ancient art #assyria #assyrian art #assyrian empire #neo assyrian empire #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #sculpture #statue #lamassu #stonework #carving #british museum

Ancient Mesopotamian terracotta relief depicting a worker using an adze to cut a piece of a chariot.

Link #art #art history #ancient art #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #relief #terracotta #sculpture #eshnunna #louvre #louvre museum #musee du louvre

Ancient Mesopotamian stamp seal (carved marble) in the form of a reclining calf.  Artist unknown; ca

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #ancient near east #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #stamp seal #marble #stonework #carving #animals in art #cattle #walters art museum

Pair of basket-shaped hair ornaments from ancient Mesopotamia.  Artist unknown; ca. 2000 BCE (Isin-L

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #jewelry #jewellery #metalwork #gold #goldwork #walters art museum

Applique in the shape of a lion’s head, from Achaemenid Persia.  Artist unknown; 6th to 4th cent. BC

Link #art #art history #ancient art #persia #persian art #ancient persia #persian empire #achaemenid persia #achaemenid empire #achaemenid art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #applique #metalwork #gold #goldwork #animals in art #lion #lions #metropolitan museum of art

A pair of Assyrian winged deities, carved in gypsum.  Artist unknown; reign of Ashurbanipal II (883-

Link #art #art history #ancient art #assyria #assyrian art #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #assyrian empire #neo assyrian empire #ashurbanipal ii #sculpture #relief sculpture #stonework #gypsum #carving #monumental sculpture #kimbell art museum

Limestone cylinder-seal from Mesopotamia, depicting the worship of the sun-god Shamash.  Artist and

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #ancient near east #near-eastern art #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamian art #mesopotamian religion #ancient mesopotamian religion #shamash #cylinder seal #limestone #stonework #carving #louvre #louvre museum #musee du louvre

Ancient Mesopotamian baked-clay plaque, depicting two bull-men holding a palm trunk topped by a sun-

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #ancient mesopotamia #ancient mesopotamian art #plaque #baked clay #oriental institute museum

Limestone head of Gudea (r. 2144-2124 BCE), king of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.  From souther

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #sumer #sumerian #sumerian art #lagash #gudea #sculpture #portrait sculpture #stonework #limestone #carving #pergamon museum

Bronze head of a bull, originally attached to a cauldron rim, from the Iron Age Armenian civilizatio

Link #art #art history #ancient art #near east #near-eastern art #ancient near east #ancient near eastern art #iron age #iron age art #urartu #urartian #urartian art #animals in art #cattle #bull #bulls #sculpture #metalwork #bronzework #walters art museum