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Chapter 2 Mesopotamia and Persia Lecture Notes
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Introductory Notes
Mesopotamia:
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Sumerian Art:
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Sumerian Artworks:
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White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq, ca. 3200-3000 BCE
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Restored view of the White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq, ca. 3200-3000
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Statuettes of two worshipers, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar), Iraq, ca. 2700 BCE.
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Standard of Ur, from tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq, ca. 2600-2400 BCE (War side,
Peace side)
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Babylon:
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Stele with the laws of Hammurabi, from Susa, Iran, ca. 1760 BCE
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Assyria:
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Lamassu (man-headed winged bull), from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, ca.
720-705 BCE
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Neo-Babylonia:
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Persia:
Ishtar Gate, Babylon, Iraq, ca. 575 BCE
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Achaemenid Empire:
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Palace/citadel of Persepolis, Iran, ca. 521-465 BCE
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Describe features: columns with animal protomes, apadana
Persians and Medes, detail of the processional frieze on the east side of the terrace of the apadana of the
palace, Persepolis, Iran, ca. 521-465 BCE
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