White Temple and Ziggurat FRQ - Ancient Mesopotamia Unit 2
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3,500 - 3,000 BCE. Uruk, Iraq (modern Warka, Iraq). Sumerian
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FUNCTION
Uruk, Iraq was “protected by Anu (sky god).
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place for public prayer, worship.
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Ziggurat pushes temple upward towards heaven - gods access our world.
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Oriented towards the cardinal directions - show connection to the cosmos.
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Only priests and royalty had access to temple at the top.
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place for public prayer, worship.
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Ziggurat pushes temple upward towards heaven - gods access our world.
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Oriented towards the cardinal directions - show connection to the cosmos.
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Only priests and royalty had access to temple at the top.
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FORM
Made of baked mud.
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Facade: exterior of the building; walls were white-washed with ground white shell or bone.
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Facade: exterior of the building; walls were white-washed with ground white shell or bone.
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CONTENT
interior of temple was very dark: symbol of the presence of the divine.
darkness was magical, mysterious, and the place where deities and supernatural forces resided
darkness was magical, mysterious, and the place where deities and supernatural forces resided
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CONTEXT
earliest surviving ziggurat.
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temple is the spiritual/literal/economic/political center of a community.
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Mesopotamian gods were animistic (control/embedded in nature) and are punishing.
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no burials held here
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temple is the spiritual/literal/economic/political center of a community.
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Mesopotamian gods were animistic (control/embedded in nature) and are punishing.
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no burials held here
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