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| ziggurat/general characteristics of ancient near eastern art |
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| The urban centers of Mesopotamia were built around a great temple (dedicated to the particular city's deity) that itself was elevated on a series of platforms. Their architecture was somewhat limited to mud-brick and timber reinforcement. The lack of stones also limited the size and scope of sculpture in the region. Thirdly, because of the extremes of climate and political upheaval, no wall paintings survive in any reasonable condition. |
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| Sumerians were the first people to develop a system of writing, cuneiform is composed of wedge-shaped signs |
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| a rich, azure-blue stone. |
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| a series of superimposed rows in a pictorial narrative |
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| The great hall of a palace. |
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| a subject of greater importance is given greater size. |
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| bricks painted and then fired to fuse the color with the baked clay |
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| figures project from the background of which they are a part. |
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| also known as low relief. The quality of a projecting image where the overall depth is shallow. The background is very compressed or completely flat, as on most coins, on which all images are in low-relief. |
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