ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Puabi, Eanna, Ziggurat
4 Nov 2016
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Enormous quantities of broken bevelled-rim bowls were found filling rooms and banked up against walls of temple buildings. So many, and so ugly, that in many early projects they were not even counted. Apparently made by pressing into a crude mold, maybe a hole in the ground. Appearance of cylinder seals (stamp seals already in use). Form of upper levels of temples (that no longer exist) Uruk culture spread through development of long-distance trade: Throughout mesopotamia, into the zagros of iran, and north and west into syria and turkey. Received timber, olive oil, silver from anatolia. Esta(cid:271)lished (cid:862)(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)t (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ies(cid:863) whi(cid:272)h see(cid:373) to e(cid:454)hi(cid:271)it (cid:373)ost of the sa(cid:373)e goods found in sumer. Rebuilding of temples had resulted in tall platforms with temples on top first ziggurats. O(cid:374)e of the i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t te(cid:373)ples was the (cid:862)white te(cid:373)ple(cid:863) atop the (cid:862)a(cid:374)u ziggu(cid:396)at(cid:863) at u(cid:396)uk. Rebuilt 6 times over a span of 500 years; platform stood 50 feet high.
