ARTH 260 Lecture 2: ARTH 260 week 2
21 Jan 2018
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The ancient world in the near east and the mediterranean: war, looting and victory monuments. Mesopotamia, babylon, the ancient towns surrounding the tigris and. Both ancient regions were surrounded by the tigris and euphrates. This area was known as the cradle of civilization. Iran is to the ne iraq is the nw. Hammurabi was famous for the law code, most complete surviving legal code from the ancient near east. Many things were taken when they were found by archaeologists. Relief carvings of a scene depicting king hammurabi being offi(cid:272)ially (cid:862)(cid:272)ro(cid:449)(cid:374)ed(cid:863) ruler by the sun and justice god shamash. Not only as a political ruler but as being in charge of the major babylonian deities. Predates the epic of gilgamesh (first literary work known of this region) Considerably broken at top and water damage at base. Naram-sin was the ruler of akkad and the akkadian ki(cid:374)gdo(cid:373) (cid:894)nippur a(cid:374)d usa i(cid:374) ela(cid:373) aka persia today(cid:895)
