ART HIS 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Warka Vase, Ninhursag, Girsu
21 Oct 2018
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Sumerian art ( 3200 bc, ) lower valley, where the rst villages were established. Groups of people creating irrigation, wide scale labor, who is doing the work etc, canals invention of the wheel. Government and societal, city states - each had a god and the rest of society, no separation between religion and government, the hub was the. Uruk was one of the earliest city states. Limited set of local resources, building with mud bricks. A strong leadership in order to get things done. They believed that the god lived in the sky, wanted to be as close to the gods. Vent access approach to the temple, ancient visitor had to change direction two or three times before coming to the entrance of the temple. Sela is the place that the god resides. Access to the interior of the temple was extremely limited to priests design. The design of the structure conveys these characteristics.
