ANCIENT NEAR EAST

SUMERIAN NARRATIVE

• Standard of Ur, Soundbox of a Lyre, Tell Asmar Figures Sumerian Narratives are represented by a series pictures organized in registers, and usually tell short stories. The standard of Ur is a narrative with two sides, the peace side and the war side, it shows one king ruling peacefully, and another in the aftermath of a huge victory. The soundbox of the great lyre was recovered from a royal tomb, and includes a narrative that most likely depicts a funeral banquet in the realm of the dead. The tell Asmar figures are a collection of limestone statues that depict gods that were found in the temple of tell Asmar

ARCHITECTURE

• Akkadian, Ziggurat, Naram-Sin The Akkadians invaded and conquered the Fertile Crescent from the Sumer's, however the left most of the architecture, such as the massive, stepped ziggurat temples. Naram-Sin was one of the rulers of the Akkadians, and made himself divine.

BABYLONIANS

• Akkadian, Ziggurat, Naram-Sin The Akkadians invaded and conquered the Fertile Crescent from the Sumer's, however the left most of the architecture, such as the massive, stepped ziggurat temples. Naram-Sin was one of the rulers of the Akkadians, and made himself divine.

ASSYRIANS

• Lamassu; Lion Hunt The Assyrian's had many huge statues that acted as guardians or protecters, called Lamassu's, which were part human, part lion, and part eagle. The lion hunt is a vivid ceremonial hunting scene, in which a Assyrian king hunts lions.

VOCABULARY

• Cylinder Seal usually less than 2 inches tall, were covered with a seal that identified the owner Lamassu Guardians of palaces and throne rooms, with the head of a man,the body of a lion or bull, the wings of an eagle, and the horned headdress of a god. cuneiform The form of writing that was used by the sumerians, meaning literally "wedge shaped" it was pressed into clay tablets hierarchy of scale a hierarchy in art that represents importance by size stele an upright slab of stone ziggurat huge, stepped structures with a temple or shrine on top votive an image or statue dedicated to a god inlay "set in" pressed into a statue registers horizontal bands that tell the compressed version of a narrative narrative a series of events represented by pictures composite relating to or denoting a classical order of architecture consisting of elements of the Ionic and Corinthian orders. divine right the belief that a certain ruler was predestined to rule by the gods heraldic relating to heraldry relief a method of sculpting that involves raising the sculpted part away from the background