VIS2315 Lecture Notes - Aurochs, Relief, Inanna
13 Apr 2022
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Mesopotamia"s rich agricultural success meant attraction from foreign invaders, with them they brought knowledge, different values and rapid technological advancements and innovations. Sumerians invented the wheel with the earliest recorded wheel dating to 3500 bce. Sumerians were the rst to plow their elds there was signi cant use of oxen to increase ef ciency this also led to the rst forms of writing and accounting to record harvests and yield. Vase of uruk/ warka vase, 3000 bce, 1m, 270kg, alabaster, carved relief decoration. This large carved stone was used for ritual use that shows a celebration for the harvest, it has four sequence events: watering the plants. Sumerians is a term applied to the ancient inhabitants of southern mesopotamia in the region of. Sumer here the earliest forms of writing were found dating 3000 bce in the form of pictograms *a picture symbolising a word of phrase. The epic of gilgamesh, tablet 11/12, 2700 bce.
