Art of the Ancient Near East Day 1. Chapter 2

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1 Art of the Ancient Near East Day 1 Chapter 2

2 Getting Started When we start a chapter you need Your image cards on your desk as well as 2-4 extra index cards These cards should be have images and titles, etc Also any handout you were given during class Something to write with Also your binder within reach

3 The Theme Card! What it the Theme Card? It is the first index card for your chapter The theme will help you remember what the chapter is about. Any other tips or tricks you learn throughout the chapter can be added to that card.

4 Theme Card Chapter 2 Art of the Ancient Near east SANBAN. (period) S= Sumerians A= Akkadians N= Neo-Sumerians B= Babylonians A= Assyrians N= Neo-Babylonians. = (period) = Persians

5 SANBAN BCE. BCE. = Before the Common Era (some say Christian Era or Current Era) that dominant cultures in the Ancient Near East continually replaced one another the chronological order of the cultures that were in power at any given time.

6 The Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia *the land between the rivers *Rivers Tigris and Euphrates

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8 Walls and tower, Jericho BCE Present day Palestine 2000 people Mud clay and brick work First Big Early Neolithic City

9 Human Figure BCE Clay plaster with shell, bitumen, and paint From Ain Ghazal in Jordan Ain Ghazal 7200 to 5000 BCE Name mean Spring of Gazelles Cover 30 acres The proximity to Ain Ghazal to Jericho was the beginning to the City-states. City-States are first town, people deciding not to move around anymore but living in a large consistent group

10 More than 30 of these sculptures were recovered from Ain Ghazal Fragment suggest there statues were life-sized Sculptures cover frames with layers of wet plaster Shells were added for eyes Bitumen a tar-like substance was used to draw the outline around the eyes.

11 No streets or plaza, Easily defended. Clusters of family homes Highly decorated interiors People got around by traveling on the roof tops composite reconstruction drawing on Chatal Huyuk Anatolia or present day Turkey BCE

12 Sumer Writing present Architecture Stories c&feature=related

13 Cuneiform Stylus pictographs

14 What is the answer to these Math Problems? + = + = - = - = x =

15 Epic of Gilgamesh m/watch?v=oszg5dtw 7Hw

16 Ruins of the White Temple Date: c BCE Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) Ziggurat mosaics

17 Cone Mosaics from the Temple of Inanna Title: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur Date: c BCE Source/Museum: Present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq

18 Face of a woman, (known as the Warka Head) Medium: Marble Size: height approx. 8" (20.3 cm) Date: c BCE Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003) Goddess face? Would have been attached to a wooden head and body It has been stripped of it paint, wig, and inlaid. -set in objects -in this case brown eyes

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20 Title: Carved vase (known as the Uruk Vase) Medium: Alabaster Size: height 36' (91 cm) Date: c BCE Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003) Sculptors told stories using registers Registers are bands of narratives Plants showing used as and with fertility are showere Also Animals are shown on a groundline. A large line implying ground On the top Inanna is excepting an offering from a naked priest.

21 Hieratic scale -Important people are shown bigger! *note the height difference between the two characters Stylized figures -simplified. * What s odd about their appearance?

22 Title: Votive Figures Medium: Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum Size: height of largest figure approx. 30" ( 76.3 cm) Date: c BCE Source/Museum: The Square Temple, Eshnunna (present-day Tell Asmar, Iraq). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

23 Detail of votive figures Votive Figures Small statue of worshipper

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25 Sumerians artists worked with Metal and bronze Sound box tells a story Title: The Great Lyre with bull s head Medium: Wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in modern wood support Size: height of head 14 back arm 46½" (117 cm) Date: c BCE

26 Title: Front panel, the sound box of the Great Lyre Medium: Wood with shell inlaid in bitumen Size: height 12¼ X 4½" (31.1 X 11cm) Can we identify what is going on in each line? Funeral rites? Significance of the animals?

27 Title: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression Medium: Lapis lazuli Size: height, 1⅝" (4.1 cm) Date: c BCE Incised Cylinder seals

28 Akkad and Lagash North of Sumer Spoke Semitic Language (like Hebrew) Saragon I Capital city was Akkad still not discovered.