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2200 Art history
ART OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 1
02/01/2009

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White temple and Ziggurate, Uruk Ca. 3200-3000

BCE
-Polytheistic culture

-only priests and rulers could enter.

SUMERIAN
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Female head, from Uruk, ca. 3200-3000 BCE


-found around the white temple in the precinct of Inanna later know as Ishtar


-made out of imported marble


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Victory stele of Eannatum (stele of the Vultures), from Girsu, Ca. 2600-2500 BCE


-the city states were at war with one another

-shows a victory
-it’s a story
-bodies are being trampled

-vultures carrying the heads of the enemies

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Warka Vase, from Uruk, ca 3200-3000 BCE

-2 feet tall
-sequential, repetition, separation of themes. Share a common ground line

-hierarchy

-first known narrative relief sculpture

-found in a temple.


-3 registers, Low-natural world (plants, then animals (alternating male, female)) Middle- humans caring votive offering.(composite view) Top- ritual figures. Priests


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Votive statues, from Eshnunna, ca 2700 BCE

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Uranshe, from Temple of Ishtar at Mari, ca 2600-2500 BCE


-servant


SUMERIAN
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Bull-headed lyre, from Tomb 789 (“King’s Grave”), Royal Cemetery, Ur, c. 2600 BCE

SUMERIAN
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Stele of Naram-Sin, 2254-2218 BCE
-Naram

-Sin is Sargon’s grandson, Calls himself king of the four corners (king of the whole world
- concurring the lullaby people


AKKADIAN
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Seated Statue of Gudea holding a temple plan, from Girsu, ca. 2100 BCE


NEO-SUMERIAN
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Stele of Hammurabi, Susa, c. 1780 BCE
stele with law code of Hammurable
made out of black baysalts

BABYLON
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Assyrian archers pursuing enemies, relief from Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II,
Kalhu (modern Nimrud), Iraq, ca. 875-860 BCE

--Image of power and prosperity



BABYLON
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*Persepolis, (apadana in the background), Iran, ca. 521-465 BCE (Darius and Xerxes)

derrias the first- called himself the king of the earth, started the empire. 

destroyed by alexander the great- but the ruins were maintained for thousands of years




PERSIA
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