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Ancient Near eastern Art

Ancient Near East: Key terms
* Cuneiform: Ancient language created by pressure sensation a stylus tool into damp clay.
* Ziggurat: A man-made mountain with a temple on top.
* stela: An upright stone marker.
* Didactic: Teaching or verbalize stories.
* Hieratic Scale: meant to depict the most important soul thorough scale. When scale is used to denote importance. A opthalmic stragedy.
* Registers: A long horizontal band that organizes the narrative.
* Lamassu: A composite plant beast with the body of a lion or bull, wing of an eagle and the head of a man.
* Apotropaic: To word gain evil.
* Capital:top part of a column.
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* What started this era?
* 1.The suppuration of agriculture
* 2.Domestication of animals
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* -Babylonian deed of sale. CA. 1750 BCE
* History of writing begins with writing on the wall (cuneiform)
* -Remains of the white temple on its ziggurat.
* Make a mountain to be in more communication to god, as well as makes a political statement. Kings lived higher. Keep control or gesture the king because he is higher than you in closer point communication to god.
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* Sumerian Art
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* -Status from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar, Iraq, ca.



2700-2500 BCE
* Found in a temple buried beneath an alter, replicates are praying which make them symbolic.
* -Royal threadbare of Ur, front & back side. Ca. 2600-2400 BCE
* The back is known as the piece sign.
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* Akkadian Art.
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* -Head of Akkadian Ruler from Nineveh (Kuyunjik), Iraq. Ca. 2250-2200 BCE.
* Goushing out the eyes and ears, key characteristics of the attend was more humiliating than destroying it to the king.
* -Stele of Naram-Sin, ca. 2270 BCE.
* The kings body is large than others, hes on the top, his pose and he is stepping on defeated people. He has a crown on.
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* Babylonian Art
* hurrying part of stele inscribed with the Law Code of...If you fate to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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