Mesopotamia Flashcards
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Mesopotamia
Roughly the 3500 BCE
Mesopotamia is the collective name for
Iraq
Greek name means
between the two rivers
developing city states
urban center that would control agriculture
Sumerians
One of the earliest city-states
what did the Sumerians invent
coniform writing
Coniform tablets
Cylinder Seal
used to record someone’s identity in picture form
why would cylinder seals survive the most
it’s carved from stone
Cylinder Seal
Ziggurat sites are often heavily degraded
because of how old they are
agricultural theocracy.
chief priest to the major goddess of the harvest and patron saint of the city are the same person
Ziggurat were often used to
worship gods or goddesses
why are ziggurats built so high
the higher the structure the closer it is to the gods
importance of Inanna
goddess who controlled the flow of grain and other agricultural products
Ziggurat temple was oriented with what
campus points and not the solstice
ziggurat
Votive Figures or Perpetual Worshippers
votive
offering or offered as part of a promise
Votive Figures represent the idea that
they would stand in for the worshipper, so they could represent you at prayer all the time.
size and detail of votive figures represents
wealth of patron
Inanna Vase
registers
system of organizing space; specifically horizontal bands used to divide pattern .
In the Inanna vase each register division represents
something different
