2.1 Ancient Mesopotamia

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The White Temple and the Anu Ziggurat

3500-3000 BCE

Uruk (Iraq)

Mud brick, pyramid stepped tower, sacred space, luxury

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Statues of Votive Figures

2700 BCE

Square Temple Eshununna (Iraq)

Gypsum, shell, black limestone, fine too incising, surrogates to worship in afterlife

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The Standard of Ur

The Royal Tomb of Ur (Iraq)

2600-2400 BCE

Wood inlaid with shell, limestone, red limestone (mixed media), one side shows war, other side peace, horizontal registers, hierarchy of size

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The Code of Hammurabi

Babylonia (Iran)

1790-1750 BCE

Basalt, inscribed cuneiform, code with list of rulings, Shamash/God (right) is giving Hammurabi (left) the right to rule

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Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon ll

Due Sharrukin (Iraq)

720-705 BCE

Alabaster (stone), winged bull with human heads, used for intimidation, subtractive, cuneiform inscriptions

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Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis (Iran)

Limestone, Greeks, Egyptians and Babylonians helped build for intimidation purposes, ceremonial space, hypostyle halls (room full of decorative columns)