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From the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Sumerian
c.2700 B.C.E.
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone -
Wiltshire, UK
Neolithic Europe
c.2500-1600 B.C.E
Sandstone -
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2490-2472 B.C.E.
Greywacke -
Babylon (Modern Iran)
Susian
c.1792-1750 B.C.E.
Basalt -
New Kingdom, 18th & 19th Dynasties
Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt
Temple: c.1550 B.C.E.
Hall: c.1250 B.C.E.
Cut sandstone and mud brick -
New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty
c.1353-1335 B.C.E.
Limestone -
Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian c.720-705 B.C.E.
Alabaster -
Archaic Greek
c.530 B.C.E.
Marble with remnants of paint -
Etruscan. c.520 B.C.E.
Terracotta -
Persepolis, Iran
Persian
c.520-465 B.C.E.
Limestone -
Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter.
c.460-450 B.C.E.
Clay, red figure technique -
Polykleitos
Original 450-440 B.C.E.
Roman copy (marble) of the Greek original (bronze) -
Nabataean Ptolemaic and Roman
c. 400 B.C.E - 100 C.E.
Cut rock -
Praxiteles
c.330 B.C.E.
Marble -
Late Imperial Roman. c.250 C.E.
Marble. -
Namibia
c. 25,500 - 25,300 B.C.E.
Charcoal on stone -
Hellenistic Greek
c.190 B.C.E.
Marble -
Republican Roman
c.75-50 B.C.E.
Marble -
Pompeii, Italy
Imperial Roman
c. 2nd Century B.C.E.
Cut stone and fresco