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Sumerian Art
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/15/2012

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Mesopotamia
Definition
Tigris-Euphrates river system
Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian in Bronze Age
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian in Iron Age

Math, Astronomy, Medicine, Technology
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Cuneiform
Definition
"wedge-shaped"
a styem of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia, in which wedge-shaped characters were produced by pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet, which was then baked or otherwise allowed to harden
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Ziggurat
Definition
a monumental platform for a temple
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Lapis Lazuli
Definition

Precious blue stone

 

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Votive
Definition
offering; a gift of gratitude to a diety
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