Visual Arts History 1040 Chapter Notes -Semitic Languages, Ishtar Gate, Lagash
6 Dec 2014
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Art as spoils of war - protection or theft: art has always been a casualty in times of social unrest, the warka head o. Sumer: the cities and city-states that developed along the rivers of southern. Representations of syllable sounds, thus becoming a true writing. Created the stylus, a pointed writing instrument: ziggurats. Iraq (2600 - 2500 bce) o: less than 2 inches high, made of hard and sometimes semiprecious stones with designs incised into the surface, cylinder seals. Akkad, ur, and lagash: akkadians, settled north of uruk, adopted sumerian culture o that include arabic and hebrew, votive statue of gudea. In contrast however, spoke a semitic language (same family of languages. Iraq (c. 2090 bce) o: dedicates himself, the sculpture, and the temple to the goddess. Geshitinanna, the divine poet and interpreter of dreams: he holds a vessel from which life-giving water flows into two streams filled with leaping fish.
