Exam 2: Art of the Ancient Near East

What is the subject of the register scenes of The Great Lyre with Bull's Head?

The image of Gudea, the ruler of Lagash, is well known to students of Near Eastern art because of the twenty surviving ____________________that he commissioned.

How is trade exemplified in The Great Lyre with Bull's Head?

Along with shell and wood the materials ________ and ______ were used to sculpt the elaborate bull head on a lyre found at a royal tomb in Ur.

What types of arts flourished in early cities?

Sumerian votive figures possess __________that reflect Mesopotamian devotional beliefs.

Most of the buildings in Kalhu were built from __________ and covered with limestone and alabaster.

The Greeks called __________ the "land between the rivers."

What are some of the conventions of the Sumerian votive figure?

To keep business records, the Sumerians pressed a __________ into clay tablets to produce cuneiform writing.

Relief sculptures like Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute at Persepolis would have originally been _____________and included details in gold leaf.

Which of the following materials was NOT used in the Great Lyre with Bull's Head ?

Naram-Sin is represented ____________, equating male vigor with power and heroism.

Inlaid images on the sound box of the Great Lyre with Bull's Head creates an intriguing relationship to _________.

Choose three objects discussed in Chapter 2 to explain how Mesopotamian art reflects the region's history and cultural beliefs.

A Near East devotional practice was to set up __________ in a shrine before an image of a god.

The ____________, which Darius built at Persepolis, was large enough to hold several thousand people.

How was the ancient Near Eastern city-state created?

How was the imperial complex at Persepolis laid out and how did it develop?

Their tolerance of ___________ won the Persians the loyalty of their subjects.