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
Statues of Votive Figures
2700 BCE
Square Temple Eshununna (Iraq)
Gypsum, shell, black limestone, fine too incising, surrogates to worship in afterlife
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
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
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
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)
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