Historical Designs
Mesopotamia
Babylonian Woman (2500-1000 BCE)
Primary Source Research:
“Female Mesopotamian Figure, 1000-500 BCE (Neo-Assyrian (?); Neo-Babylonian (?)). Museum Purchase [Formerly Part of the Walters Collection], 1941, 48.1807: The Walters Art Museum.” Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum, 18 June 2025, art.thewalters.org/object/48.1807/.
Standing Female Figure - Early Dynastic II - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324117.
Ressman, Anna R. “Search Our Collections: The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago.” The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, isac-idb.uchicago.edu/id/ac96efb4-750c-4c3c-9436-d3756366b6bd.
Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. Survey of Historic Costume. Fairchild Publications, 1998.
Statuette (Alabaster; Ht. 7 1/2"). Twenty-second to twenty-first century B.C. [--Parrot.], Paris: Mus. Louvre.; Discovered by a workman on the excavation directed by Joseph Hazzidakis at the Cretan site of Tylissos in the early thirties. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.11655468. Sculpture.
Woman with Folded Hands. c. 2650-2250 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq. Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives. Artstor. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.18134680. Limestone.
Assyrian Man (1000-600 BCE)
Primary Source Research:
Mashberg, Tom. Assyrian Artifacts to Be Returned to Iraq - The New York Times, 15 Mar. 2015, archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/assyrian-artifacts-to-be-returned-to-iraq/.
Bearded Man Holding a Tree. 8th century BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq. Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives. Artstor. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.18148917. Ivory.
Unknown Creator. Head of a Bearded Man. 710-705 BCE, SAHARA Public Collection. SAHARA: Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.32453842. Gypsum.
Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. Survey of Historic Costume. Fairchild Publications, 1998.
Human-Headed Winged Lion (Lamassu) - Assyrian - Neo-Assyrian - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322609.
Plaque (Relief; 2 1/4" x 6 3/16"). Dated ca. 700 B.C. [--MBAB.], New York: Mus., Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fletcher Fund, 51.131,5.; Discovered in 1961 on the island of Mykonos. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.11655855. Ivory.
