ARTH 1380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Standard Of Ur, Mesopotamia, Sumer
13 Oct 2017
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[chapter 2] [ancient mesopotamia and persia] (ca. 3,500-600 . Ancient sumerians: located roughly in south iraq. Sumerian rulers were the gods representatives on earth. Rulers & priests directed communal activities such as canal construction, crop. Developed agricultural and manufacturing/trading skills collection, & food distribution (3400-3200 bce) boxes w/ soft clay, with a (3000 - 2900 bce) wedge-shaped . Sumerians made inventories of cattle, food, & other items by drawing pictographs in. Sumerians had further simplified the pictographic signs by reducing them to a group of. Artistic style as language of a culture. Layout of sumerian cities reflected the central role of gods in daily life, city within a city. Ex of preserved sumerian temple is the white temple, 5000yrs old, Believed in grandiose settings for the worship of deities(gods) such as. Striking contrast to the linear approach that the egyptians preferred for their monumental shrines temples and tombs. Sumerian sculptures implied simple forms of cylinders and cones.
