ancient mediterranean content

White temple and ziggurat (Sumerian)

• heart of theocracy, deity’s political authority

• raised mud brick platform

  • recessed stripes

• white washed temple

• Uruk

Votive figures (Sumerian)

• statues made to worship

• big eyes, undulating detailed hair

• Anzu, mythic bird

• Tell Asmar

Standard of Ur (Sumerian)

• one side peace, other side war

• registers of classes

• military standard

• discovered in burial

Law Code Stele of Hammurabi (Babylonian)

• cuneiform

• prologue of scene

• laws

• epilogue, importance of king

• Hammurabi receiving signs of power from Shamash

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II (Assyrian)

• gypsum alabaster

• detailed, geometric forms

• five legs to show walking and standing

• cuneiform about the king

• guarding the citadel

Persepolis: Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes (Persian)

• Persepolis: ceremonial capital

• Apadana palace: large ceremonial building

• hypostyle hall with columns of bulls eagles lions royal authority and kingship

• monumental stairways with relief sculpture

  • subject nations bringing gifts to the king

• AUTHORITY OF KING

• capital of a column

  • bull