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White temple and Ziggurate, Uruk Ca. 3200-3000
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-Polytheistic culture
-only priests and rulers could enter.
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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
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Bull-headed lyre, from Tomb 789 (“King’s Grave”), Royal Cemetery, Ur, c. 2600 BCE
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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
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Seated Statue of Gudea holding a temple plan, from Girsu, ca. 2100 BCE
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Stele of Hammurabi, Susa, c. 1780 BCE
stele with law code of Hammurable
made out of black baysalts
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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
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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
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