1. Mesopotamian Art

2. The Birthplace of Western Culture

5. Bas-Relief A type of sculpture made by carving out images from a flat surface

6. Examples of Bas-reliefs

7. Greek

8. Persian

9. Egyptian (a sunken-relief)

10. Italy

11. Denver

12. Mesopotamia

14. Lamassu bas-relief from palace in Assyria (now Iraq) ~715 BC.

18. (Recreation at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany)

23. Tell Asmar Statuettes ~2600 BC

24. The Standard of Ur ( 2600 BC)

25. Ram Caught in Thicket (2800 BC)

26. The Great Lyre from the King’s Grave (~ 2550 BC)

27. A Modern Lyre A Mesopotamian Lyre

28. The Great Lyre from the King’s Grave (~ 2550 BC)