ARH 143 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stone Slab, Fertile Crescent, Conceptual Art
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Art of the ancient near east: mesopotamian artists created art that spoke language, a conceptual art, that depicted political worlds. (i. e. Stone slab art of ruler naram-sin): hierarchy scale was used in art. This type of art is also a reflection of symbolism and story telling which are common among most steles. People of these communities were called sumerians: the sumerians are the creators of important technological and cultural advancements, sumerians created cuneiform (wedged-shaped symbols) which they pressed into clay slabs with a stylus yep instrument. Cuneiform was used to keep business records: cuneiform was the beginning of literacy, writing, and arithmetic, the sumerians greatest discovered art form, was the ziggurat, which are stepped architectures with temples and shrines on top. Ziggurats glorified rulers and were symbols of wealth and prestige among the communities: ziggurats were always given names. One example is the house of mountains and.
