The Art Of Sumer Akkad
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The Art Of Sumer Akkad
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Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Art Of Sumer Akkad written by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Art, Akkadian categories.
The Art Of Ancient Mesopotamia
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Author : Anton Moortgat
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 1969
The Art Of Ancient Mesopotamia written by Anton Moortgat and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Art categories.
The Sumerians
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Author : Innovating History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-29
The Sumerians written by Innovating History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-29 with categories.
These people, the Sumerians, influenced not only all the other civilizations which arose in Mesopotamia but virtually every other human society which followed. Without the Sumerians, the world today would be a very different place. However, although we know a great deal about these people, there are fundamental mysteries about the Sumerians which have still not been solved by historians or archaeologists. For example, the Sumerians seemed to appear in Mesopotamia with a complex and developed society and skills and technologies which no other culture possessed, yet there is no agreement where they came from. They created a complex language, but no-one knows what it sounded like. There are striking examples of similarities between the art of the civilization of Sumer and the art of other ancient civilizations, yet we know that these cultures had no contact with each other. The Sumerians were able to observe and record astronomical and celestial phenomena in very advanced ways which are still not understood. In this book you will about: * Sumerian Culture * Sumerian Inventions * How long were they around * What they looked like * Fascinating insight into their everyday life
Exemplars Of Kingship
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Author : Melissa Eppihimer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-26
Exemplars Of Kingship written by Melissa Eppihimer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Art categories.
Stretching across the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Akkadian dynasty (ca. 2334-2154 BCE) created a territorial state of unprecedented scale in the ancient Near East by uniting the city-states of Sumer and Akkad and parts of Syria and Iran. To establish and, later, cement their authority over disparate peoples and places, the kings used art and visual culture to extraordinary effect. Exemplars of Kingship conveys the astonishing life of the art of the Akkadian kings by assessing ancient and modern responses to its dynamic forms and transformative ideologies of kingship. For nearly two thousand years after their reign, the Akkadian kings were remembered as exemplary rulers. Modern assessments of ancient memories of Akkadian kingship have concentrated on textual attestations of the kings' place in cultural memory. This book considers the contributions of images to memories of Akkadian kingship. Through close readings of the visuals that remain, Melissa Eppihimer discusses how Akkadian steles, statues, and cylinder seals became models for later rulers in Mesopotamia and beyond who wished to emulate or critique the Akkadian kings-and how these rulers and their contemporaries were reminded of the Akkadian past when they looked at images. Exemplars of Kingship is, therefore, a book about Akkadian art and its reception in antiquity, but it is also concerned with the modern reception of Akkadian art and kingship. It argues that modern responses have constrained our understanding of ancient responses. Through a wide range of examples drawn from almost two millennia, the book highlights the individual decisions that prompted continuity and change during the long history of Mesopotamia and its artistic traditions.
Sumer The Dawn Of Art
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Author : André Parrot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Sumer The Dawn Of Art written by André Parrot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Art, Sumerian categories.
Gift of The John W. Cavanaugh Family Foundation.
The Lives Of Sumerian Sculpture
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Author : Jean M. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-08
The Lives Of Sumerian Sculpture written by Jean M. Evans and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with Art categories.
This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology at the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, this book argues that the early modern reception of Sumer still influences ideas about these sculptures. Engaging also with the archaeology of the Early Dynastic temple, the book ultimately considers what a stone statue of a human figure has signified, both in modern times and in antiquity.
Sumerian Origins
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Author : Norah Romney
language : en
Publisher: DTTV PUBLICATIONS
Release Date : 2020-06-07
Sumerian Origins written by Norah Romney and has been published by DTTV PUBLICATIONS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-07 with History categories.
A Mysterious Group of People came to settle in southern Mesopotamia, sometime around 5400BC. What is now the modern state of Iraq, the first city of Mesopotamia was founded named Eridu. Although historians have generally regarded this as the world’s first city, we have seen this challenged on numerous occasions by recent discoveries too numerous to mention here. Eridu had all the things we ordinarily associate with an ancient city: temples, administrative buildings, housing, agriculture, markets, art, and, of course, walls to keep out unsavoury characters.The elusive aspect is we have absolutely no idea where they acquired their language, and bizarre language it is, we have no idea what they originally looked like. Their language, which we call Sumerian, and the subsequent Akkadian derivative were linguistic isolates. Sumerian is the oldest known written language on Earth, and any languages it might have derived from or developed alongside have been lost to time. Figuring out what their baffling ethnic identity based on their art is a doomed effort, because their art was so stylized that a good case could be made that it portrays people of any ethnicity, or the people they encountered. The Sumerian language was not Semitic, and the Akkadian conquests of 2334 BCE disrupted the ethnic and cultural isolation of the Sumerian people. By about 2000 BCE, the Sumerians were speaking Akkadian and the Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations were regarded as a single enterprise.Does this mean that we’ll never know how the Sumerian language developed, or where the Sumerians originally came from? Well if any reasonably well-preserved Sumerian bones can be found DNA testing could tell us their ethnic origin. Although this all sounds murky, we have literature left in the form if cuneiform writing that speaks volumes on their day to day life and their highly unusual gods. The Sumerian pantheon reads like wild science fiction at times and although they often speak of their own origins in terms of their gods and family ties many have chosen to label this as mythology, ignore it, or merely treat it in a literature aspect.
The Development Of Sumerian Art
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Author : Leonard Woolley
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1981
The Development Of Sumerian Art written by Leonard Woolley and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Art categories.
The Early Dynasties Of Sumer And Akkad Classic Reprint
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Author : C. J. Gadd
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-22
The Early Dynasties Of Sumer And Akkad Classic Reprint written by C. J. Gadd and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Early Dynasties of Sumer and Akkad As a result of this rearrangement it has appeared that the total gap between the end of L. VI and the beginning of L. VII is about 30 lines, and might be rather more. The next Space, which extends from the middle of the Agade kingdom to the beginning of Gutium, may be similarly filled from the contents of 1088 57. It would be tedious to repeat the actual process here, and in this case the result may be barely stated: this gap appears to comprise some 36 lines. The beginning of L. IX contains the summary of the Gutium dynasty, and here, as we do not possess the missing portions, no very precise reckoning is possible. But L. Enumerated 21 kings in this dynasty, and four are preserved in Col. VIII. This would leave 17 more to be entered, and, allowing two lines to each king, we might arrive at a rough total of 34 lines missing between L. VIII - IX. The result of these calculations is that we have three spaces which contained approximately 30, 36, and 34 lines, from which the average of 33 or 34 is readily obtained, and, while there is, of course, no mathematical exactitude about these figures, they may still be sufficient to constitute a working formula. It should, perhaps, be added that, in each case, what seems to be the smallest possible number of lines has been allowed, and that the average therefore represents a minimum computation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Mesopotamia
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Author : Ariane Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2020
Mesopotamia written by Ariane Thomas and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Art categories.
Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, was home to the remarkable ancient civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. From the rise of the first cities around 3500 BCE, through the mighty empires of Nineveh and Babylon, to the demise of its native culture around 100 CE, Mesopotamia produced some of the most powerful and captivating art of antiquity and led the world in astronomy, mathematics, and other sciences—a legacy that lives on today. Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins presents a rich panorama of ancient Mesopotamia’s history, from its earliest prehistoric cultures to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE. This catalogue records the beauty and variety of the objects on display, on loan from the Louvre’s unparalleled collection of ancient Near Eastern antiquities: cylinder seals, monumental sculptures, cuneiform tablets, jewelry, glazed bricks, paintings, figurines, and more. Essays by international experts explore a range of topics, from the earliest French excavations to Mesopotamia’s economy, religion, cities, cuneiform writing, rulers, and history—as well as its enduring presence in the contemporary imagination.