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Ancient Near East
Part 1
Jericho - Sumer
MESOPOTAMIA:
SUMMARY
PERIOD
ANCIENT NEAR
EASTOUTLINE
EMPIRES
• Sumer
• Akkadian
• Neo-Sumerian
• Old Babylonian
• Old Assyrian
• Hittite
• Neo-Assyrian/
Babylonian
• Persia
3000-2334 BCE
2340-2193 BCE
2125-2004 BCE
2025-1594 BCE
1600-1100 BCE
1600-1200 BCE
1000-539 BCE
559-334 BCE
The Fertile Crescent
and
Mesopotamia:
the land between two rivers
The First Cities:
Jericho, c.8000-7000 BCE
Ain Ghazal, c. 7200-5000 BCE
Chatal Huyuk, c.6500-5500 BCE
Jericho (Jordan):
aerial view: mound
of 1st town (front)
modern city
(middle) and Dead
Sea (back)
A different tradition:
The Human Figures
at
Ain Ghazal, Jordan
Chatal Huyuk c. 6500 - 5500 BCE
Ain Ghazal:
2 phases of pre-pottery
Neolithic house
c. 7200-5000 BCE
Chatal Huyuk
Anatolia
Early, if not the
first example
of a cityscape
wall painting.
On top: restored painting
Below: pre-restoration.
SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA
SUMER
3000-2334 BCE
MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE:
The ZIGGURAT
(form and function)
•Ziggurat- example of monumental religious architecture
•Stepped pyramids structures with a temple or shrine on
top
•Represented wealth, prestige, and prosperity of a city’s
rulers and glorified its gods.
•Symbol of bridge between heaven and earth
Uruk (modern Warka in Iraq): White Temple
of Anu, c.3300-3000 BCE
Nanna Ziggurat, Ur , c.2100—2050 BCE
(present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq)
Carved vase (known as
the Uruk Vase)
Alabaster
c. 3300-3000 BCE
•One of the earliest
surviving works of narrative
relief sculpture.
•The vase has three
registers, or levels, of
carving.