Writing Assignment 2: The Monument
This is a research based paper on a selected monument from ancient Mesopotamian, Egypt, Greek or Roman worlds. Please select a monument from the list below (or you are welcome to come up with a similar one if you like) and write a short paper of 5-6 pages (not longer not shorter- double space, 12 font). While writing your paper, you are expected to read about, research and engage with at least a few of the concepts relevant to your monument, such as style, iconography, narrative, representation, symbolism, gender and sexuality, performance, appropriation, commemoration, memory, etc. in (a) the online Nelson and Schiff's Critical Terms for Art History, as well as the Grove Dictionary art (see below for the links) and other library resources.
Along with your paper, please make sure to provide appropriate illustrations of your monument and a full bibliography. Your sources need to be appropriately cited according to the Humanities Author-Date style referencing. Here is a 
Referencing guide.
Due: April 22nd, Monday
Resources:
- Nelson, Robert S. and Richard Shiff; 2003. Critical terms for art history. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- Grove Dictionary of Art (accessed through Josiah, Oxford art online)
List of possible monuments to write about:
- Hanging gardens of Babylon
- Nabataean city of Petra
- Palace of Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (Nimrud)
- The Erectheion in Athens Acropolis
- Stoa of the Attalids in Athens Agora
- The Arch of Titus, Rome.
- The column of Trajan, Rome.
- Mortuary complex of Queen Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahri, Egypt
- The Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete.
- Mauseoleum of Halikarnassos, Southwest Turkey.
- The temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Olympia, Greece.
- Ara Pacis Augustaea, Rome
- Altar of Zeus, Pergamum
- The Neolithic temples of Gobeklitepe, Southeastern Turkey
- The Hittite rock sanctuary of Yazilikaya, Central Turkey.
- Ishtar Gate, Babylon
- Achaemenid royal tombs at Naqsh e Rustam, Iran
- White Obelisk from Nineveh, Assyrian Empire
- The Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae
