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Gold was the only precious material used for the mask of King Tutankhamun.

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The Egyptian fresco from Nebamun's tomb utilizes:

A) composite view
B) hierarchical scale
C) hieroglyphs
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

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The Hellenistic sculpture Laocoön and his Sons depicts an ideal young athlete.

Choose three mythical creatures represented in artworks in this chapter, or from elsewhere in the book. Describe the significance of the creature to its culture. Where was the artwork originally intended to be displayed? Who would have been the viewer of the mythical creature, and what message might it have sent to them? Babylonians 21) The Ishtar Gate was built under whose rule? 
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What is not about the interior of the Pantheon?

Prehistoric female figurines that refer to reproduction are called fertility figures.

Metopes are an element of which architectural order?

The Greeks often used ideal proportions in their sculpture and architecture.

The lamassi sculptures made for Ashurnasirpal II's palace each have five legs.

Discuss the conventions that ancient artists used to differentiate between male and female figures (for example, the way that the female acrobats in the Minoan bull-leaping fresco (3.6) are denoted with lighter skin than the males) using images from the textbook. Of these conventions, which are derived from purely physical differences between the sexes, and which might have been influenced by social or cultural expectations? What can these artworks tell us about the roles of ancient men and women? How successful were ancient artists at depicting the two sexes? Mesopotamia: The Cradle of Civilization Sumerians 12) The Sumerian Standard of Ur shows scenes of: 
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The Parthenon in Athens used to house a huge gold-and-ivory statue of:

Archaic statues of males and females were always nude.

The protective goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt are represented on the headdress of the mask of King Tutankhamun by:

Compare and contrast three different narrative artworks from this chapter. How has each artist portrayed (or not portrayed) the passage of time in their work? How has each artist emphasized the most important figures or events? Which artwork most effectively tells the story? Are there parts of the story that are ambiguous to the modern viewer? Akkadians 16) The life-sized bronze head of an Akkadian 
ruler (3.8) was discovered in present-day ________.

The Egyptians cremated the bodies of dead pharaohs.

The Great Sphinx is associated with which pharaoh's pyramid?

It was possible to decipher hieroglyphs because of ________.

The Parthenon in Athens looks exactly the same today as it did when the Greeks originally built it.

In black-figure painting on Greek pots, the background is ________.

Bulls were often shown in the art of the Babylonians and Minoans.