The Ancient Near East

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The Ancient Near East
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Mesopotamia The Earliest Civilization I.
Sumerian
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White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk (modern Warka),
Iraq, ca. 32003000 BCE
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Ziggurat at Ur, Sumer, c. 2100 BCE
bent axis approach
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Ziggurat at Ur, Sumer, c. 2100 BCE
bent axis approach
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sculpture in the round
hierarchy of scale
Statues from the Abu Temple, Eshnunna (Tell
Asmar), Sumer, c. 2700-2500 BC
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votive
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Warka Vase Offerings to Inanna, Uruk, Sumer
(Iraq), ca. 32003000 BCE Alabaster, 3 1/4 high

• relief sculpture
• narrative
• register / frieze
• ground line

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Warka Vase
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Standard of Ur, War, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq,
ca. 2600 BCE. Wood inlaid with shell, lapis
lazuli, and red limestone, approx. 8 x 1 7
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Standard of Ur, Peace
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composite view
conceptual
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Sound Box of a Lyre w. Bulls Head, Ur, Sumer,
c. 2600 BC
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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, Susa, Iran, 22542218
BCE. Pink sandstone, approx. 6 7
II. Akkadian
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Seated Statue of Gudea ca. 2100 BCE Diorite,
approx. 2 5 high
III. Neo-Sumerian
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IV. Babylonian
Stele of Hammurabi, Babylon, c. 1780 BC
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Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern
Khorsabad), Iraq, ca. 720705 BCE
V. Assyrian
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Lamassu, from the citadel of Sargon II, ca.
720705 BCE Limestone, approx. 13 10
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Relief from Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Assyrian
archers pursuing enemies, Iraq, ca. 875860 BCE
2 10 5/8 high