CLAS 2P34 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Amen, Ashurbanipal, Elam
3 Jun 2016
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Citadel with temples including one for ishtar. Scenes of elites pleasures especially hinting and dinner. Now use of full narrative scenes = complex storytelling. Queen is on a raised up chair while he reclines on his seat as they are served in the gardens. This king appeared to have created the first visual story of his battle with the elamites. River was choked with corpses for 3 days. They behead the kings head as a trophy. King and queen celebrate in their garden with the head of the elamite kings head on a tree. Story has a beginning middle and end along with sub plots. You don"t have to speak the language to understand this visual story. People had to kneed bread made up of the ground bones of their ancestry. There seemed to be no emotion in this, just business.
