ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007) Copyrighted material for "fair

ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007) Copyrighted material for "fair

ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
The Ancient Near East
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
The Ancient Near East
Sumer
Mesopotamia
Sumer
• First great urban
communities
•First “State” level
society
• technology
• monumental
architecture
• craft specialization
• early writing
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Uruk (Warka)
City walls
Houses
Temple
precincts
Anu
Inanna
Uruk
Ziggurat
“White Temple”
c. 3200-3000 BC
Uruk - White Temple & Ziggurat of Anu
mudbrick
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Uruk (Warka)
Inanna Precinct
Warka Head
Marble
Acrolith
Warka Vase
Alabaster
c. 3200-3000
Relief
3 registers
Nude men
(priests?)
Animals
&
Plants
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Inanna? Priestess?
Hierarchy of scale
“Sacred Marriage”?
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Eshnunna
(Tell Asmar)
Mortals
Gestures
Inscriptions
= Votive
offerings
“Stele of the Vultures” from Girsu (Iraq), c. 2600-2500 BCE
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c. 2600-2500 BC
Historical
Narrative
Eannatum
Ensi of Lagash
Ningirsu
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Ningirsu
Standard of UR
c. 2600 BC
War side
Wood, lapis lazuli, shell, red
limestone
Standard of UR
c. 2600 BC
Peace side
Function?
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Detail
Bull-headed Lyre
Royal Cemetery of
UR
1920’s
Wood
Gold
Lapis
Lazuli
Shell
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Heraldic
pose
University of
Pennsylvania
Stele of Naram-Sin
c. 2254-2218 BC
Akkadian period
Akkad (near Babylon)
2334
Sargon = “True King”
Naram-Sin
= grandson of Sargon
Hierarchy of scale
Horned helmet
Message?
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Gudea
Ensi of Lagash c. 2100 BC
Diorite
Neo-Sumerian Period
Stele of Urnammu
c. 2100 BC
Great builder
Adoration of gods
Neo-Sumerian Period
Ziggurat of Nanna at Ur, c. 2100 BC
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Hammurabi of Babylon
1792-1750 BC
Law Code c. 1780
Old Babylonian Period
Law Code of
Hammurabi
Shamash
c. 1780
Basalt relief
Hammurabi
Assyrian Empire c. 1000-612 BC
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Citadel of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (720 BC)
Khorsabad, Iraq
Assyrian Period
Lamassu
c. 720 BC
Limestone
Guard entrance
Babylon
Egypt
Dur Sharrukin
Persepolis
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Babylon
Ishtar Gate
c. 575 BC
Neo-Babylonian
Period
c. 612-550
Babylon
Ishtar Gate
Dragon
Bull
Persepolis
c. 521-465 BC
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Persepolis
Palace of Darius &
Xerxes
Audience Hall
(Apadana)
Persepolis
Apadana
Persepolis
c. 521-465 BC
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ARTS 149 (Week of Sep 3-7, 2007)
Apadana reliefs
c. 521-465 BC
Apadana reliefs
Darius
Xerxes
c. 521-465 BC
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