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Ancient Near East Sculpture Cataloging Scheme

note: architecture is cataloged alphabetically within A 3 MES, by city/site

Protoliterate

Seals

3500 - 3000 B.C.

Elamaite

 

Sumerian (Early Dynastic)

Figures

Reliefs

3000 - 2350 B.C.

Akkadian

2350 - 2150 B.C.

Neo-Sumerian (3rd Dynasty of Ur)

2150 - 2000 B.C.

Isin-Larsa Period

2025 - 1763 B.C.

Babylonian

Seals

Stele of Hammurabi

1900 - 1595 B.C.

Kassites & Mitanni

1595 - 1150 B.C.

Assyrian (includes Luristan)

Ivory

Reliefs

Seals

900 - 612 B.C.

Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean)

625 - 538 B.C.

Syria-Palestine
(Includes Bronze Age, Phoenician, Canaanite, Ugaritic, and Iron Age)

3000 - 538 B.C.

Achaemenid (Persian)

538 B.C. - 331 A.D.

Anatolia (Includes Bronze Age, Troy, Hittite, Phrygian, Urartu)

3000 - 538 B.C.


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