CLAS 2P34 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plaster, Eanna, Human Beings In Buddhism
5 May 2016
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Temple of eridu shows 16 levels, each larger than the next. Base: 13 m high gives the opportunity for the builders to raise the temple even higher above the ground. Base: designed with indented pattern light/ dark. Ramp for processions to temple on top give it more strength and stability. Because it"s made of mud bricks it isn"t very durable, if it was a rainy area it would have disappeared. Rectangular: central court rooms for storage of agriculture surplus: redistributive society. White temple = white gypsum plaster visibility for building would have given it a white brilliant exterior. Inside the white temple of an altar for offerings and pedestal for cult statue. Temples houses of the gods dwell on earth. Design derived from domestic architecture, but monumentalized. You have to build the biggest and greatest one so that the gods will want to come to it.
