royal art as political message in ancient mesopotamia catherine p. foster uc berkeley
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Royal Art as Political Message in Ancient Mesopotamia
Catherine P. FosterUC Berkeley
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JordanIraq
Iran
Syria
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Egypt
Israel
Lebanon
Mesopotamia: “land between the rivers”
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“Warka Stele/a”
80 cm in height
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“Warka Stele/a”
80 cm in height
‘Priest-King’
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“Victory Stele of Naram-Sin”
2 meters in height
Originally erected in theancient city of Sippar
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“Statues of Gudea”
2,100 BCE
Emphasis was piety
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Temple Eninnu
Ningirsu
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Old Babylonian Period
1700 BCE
Hammurabi
Ruled from Babylon
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“Code of Hammurabi”
2.5 meters in height
Currently on display at the Louvre in Paris
282 sections
Lex talionis = “Eye for an Eye”
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Shamash, god of Justice
“Rod and ring” of kingship
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“Code of Hammurabi”
2.5 meters in height
Currently on display at the Louvre in Paris
282 sections
Lex talionis = “Eye for an Eye”
“…to cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wickedness and evil, that the strong may not oppress the weak”
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Neo-Assyrian Period
1000 – 750 BCE
Expansion
Orthostats
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“Lion Hunt” scenes
Ashurnasirpal II
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Ashurbanipal
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Ashurnasirpal II
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Sennacherib
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Tiglath-Pileser III
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Ashurbanipal
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Persian Empire
Last great empire of theancient Near East before the coming of Alexander the Great in 331 BCE
Persepolis
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“Gateway of All Lands”
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Royal Art as Political Message