VPHA46H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practices, Axis Mundi, Lamassu
1 Dec 2017
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Lecture 2: ancient civilizations art & power (sept 18) Concepts: axis mundi, orthogonal plan (vs. irregular plan) Techniques: relief sculpture, sunken relief sculpture, ornament (ornamentation) Axis mundi: vertical axis merging the cosmos and the earth. Ziggurat: the ziggurat itself is the base on which the white temple is set. Its purpose is to get the temple closer to the heavens, and provide access from the ground to it via steps. The mesopotamians believed that these pyramid temples connected heaven and earth. Orthogonal plan (vs. irregular plan): straight streets; a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. The infrastructure cost for regular grid patterns is generally higher than for patterns with discontinuous. Stele: an upright stone slab or column typically bearing a commemorative inscription or relief design, often serving as a gravestone.
