Art-Architecture & public workes
Sumerian art-ARCHITECTURE
Sumerian art is one of the most loved and most valued arts in history, especially the portraits the empire made consisting from materials like marble and gray-black diorite in most scenarios. Dating back to about 2400 BC, they have the smooth perfection and idealized features of the classical period in Sumerian art. At that date of time period sculptures where the elite of art, it symbolized wealth, elite class, high ranking of social instinct, and hierarchy connections towards others. These sculptures were made of clay, Sumerian's most abundant material. The votive marble sculptures from Tell Asmar represent tall, bearded figures with huge, staring eyes and long, pleated skirts. The tallest figure is about 30 inches in height. He represents the god of vegetation. The next tallest represents a mother goddess, these were common in many ancient cultures. They were worshipped in the hope that they would bring fertility to women and to crops. The artwork Ur yielded much outstanding Sumerian work of art , a wooden harp with the head of a bull on top, showing mythological scenes in gold and mosaic inlay on the sound box in c.2650 B.C. One of a very familiar looking art works madero honor Inanna in the Middle East was an Earth and later a (horned) moon goddess; Canaanite derivative of Sumerian Innin, or Akkadian Ishtar of Uruk.
The ziggurats are temples, mostly located in Sumer that propose to a architectural masterpiece form of pyramid, it at the same time links to an wonder of art in Mesopotamia. These Mesopotamian temples platforms are called ziggurats, a word derived from the Assyrian ziqquratu, meaning "high." They were symbols in themselves; the ziggurat at Ur was planted with trees to make it represent a mountain. There the god visited Earth, and the priests climbed to its top to worship. Most cities at those days, before the structure and concept was invented, most cities were simple in structure, but then after the concept was pored in garnet, the ziggurat temples became on of the most famous architectures in whole of Mesopotamia.
Baylonian Art-Architecture
In the 18th cent. B.C., Babylonia under Hammurabi rose to power and dominated Mesopotamia. A diorite head, wide-eyed, bearded, and hatted, found at Susa (1792–50 B.C.; Louvre), is generally taken to be a portrait of Hammurabi. The surface is carved to show the marks of aging on a sensitive face. The great basalt stele found in Susa upon which Hammurabi's immortal code of law is inscribed bears a relief at the top showing the king himself before the sun god who commands him to set down the law for his people (c.1750 B.C.; Louvre). Hammurabi is also represented kneeling in prayer in a sculpture in the round that is colored green and on which the hands and face have been gilded (from Larsa; Louvre).
A sculpture from Mari of a fertility goddess (Aleppo Mus.), holding a vase from which water flows down her skirt, further attests to the genius of Babylonian sculptors. Several examples of terra-cotta plaques of this period in the Louvre depict scenes of Babylonian daily life, including agricultural pursuits and crafts such as carpentry. Babylonia was also a glassmaking center, but far less glass than sculpture has survived its destructive climate.
Babylonian Architecture was incredible in it structures and its concepts integrated in their empires Architecture in c.4000-1250 BC. Early inhabitants of the region Babylonia, who as early as the fourth millennium, had evolved a sophisticated architecture using brick, and who set the architectural agenda, virtually until Hellenistic times. Architectural master inventors stated in Babylonia also built the one and only famous arches with voussoirs and vaults, and used cedar wood in great quantities which was at that a wood which costed a considerable large sum. In important building such as an empires central, buildings, walls would be decorated which a verity of colored terra cotta cones placed in geometrical patterns based on their needs and wants for customization. The main characteristics of Babylonian architecture were absorbed by the Assyrians near the end of the second millennium BC.
Sumerian public works
Sumerian public workes was outstanding due its many modern structured elements. Families had their own rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, plus public toilets. The Sumerian's lived with the public works and this was very important to them an their empires feuture. Sumerian's especially benfited from their public workes due that they discoverd early medicin to contain safety when having diseases or pain, it also ensecured them to safety. Public workes also helped in war situations, Sumerian's and many other empires or cities that build high and massive city walls to protect them from war, their city or empire be destroyed or many people in their belonging dining or under their power. The rolls in public works where very strictly separated and made clear. Without public workes acient roads made by public workers would nave not existed and for that would of lamed their transportation and their economic system in wich they live nowadays. A very famous fixture of the Sumerian public works is that they have worked very safly and made evrthing as good as they could so that nothing would ever happen.
Babylonian Public works
Babylonian public workes was outstanding due its many modern structured elements. Families had their own rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, plus public toilets. The Babylonians lived with the public works and this was very important to them an their empires feuture. Babylonians especially benfited from their public workes due that they discoverd early medicin to contain safety when having diseases or pain, it also ensecured them to safety. Public workes also helped in war situations, Baybylonians and many other empires or cities that build high and massive city walls to protect them from war, their city or empire be destroyed or many people in their belonging dining or under their power. The rolls in public works where very strictly separated and made clear. Without public workes acient roads made by public workers would nave not existed and for that would of lamed their transportation and their economic system in wich they live nowadays. A very famous fixture of the Babylonian public works is that they have worked very safly and made evrthing as good as they could so that nothing would ever happen.
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I think that these two categories of the eight characteristics of civilization in Mesopotamia, Art-architecture and public works match together. For instance if a building for example a ziggurat temple needs to be built, public workers need to actually build it to make it possible, but in the other side without art and architecture no buildings would be existing for the public workers to build.
I think that these two categories of the eight characteristics of civilization in Mesopotamia, Art-architecture and public works match together. For instance if a building for example a ziggurat temple needs to be built, public workers need to actually build it to make it possible, but in the other side without art and architecture no buildings would be existing for the public workers to build.