Art History: Ancient Mesopotamia

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Uruk

  • earliest + largest city in Babylonia w over 100,000 people

  • beads

  • domestication of cereals, grains, livestock, and pets


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Sargon of Akkad

  • 1st king of the Akkadian Empire, later called Sargon the Great

  • had a bronze head made of him


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true or false: the cylinder seal was invented during this period

true

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Elam

Babylonian empire falls to Hittites, didn’t stay for long, Kassites take over

new city/empire

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Lamassu

  • human headed deity figures for protection at gates of palaces + temples


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Art examples

Lion throwing up blood

wall panels, “comic” panels

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ISIS & ISIL

in Iraq they destroyed a lot of ancient objects + raided museums

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Achaemenid Persia (500 BCE - 330 BCE)

largest empire ever known at the time, considered 1st persian empire
- domed structures used as 1st refrigerators