ARHI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Diorite, Nimrud, Lagash
16 Dec 2016
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Describes various urban cultures one large area: held together by their writing: cuneiform. Division of different national entities/countries in present day (iraq, Cultural diversity, each with some specific characteristic: uniformity, unity, and continuity of ziggurat architecture. Ruling power system changed from: sumerians, akkadians, babylonians, assyrians, persians. Due to large scale irrigation and agriculture. (cid:862)theo(cid:272)rati(cid:272) so(cid:272)ialis(cid:373)(cid:863: (cid:862)god rules for all(cid:863, ruler orders people what to do food redistributed evenly over the people who worked. Ziggurat: elevated, security, protection, ele(cid:448)atio(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith a(cid:272)red (cid:373)ou(cid:374)tai(cid:374), (cid:862)a(cid:454)is (cid:373)u(cid:374)di(cid:863, built of sun dried bricks. Continually errored due to rain: aligned with nesw, continuous rebuilding = layers of previous structure. Will get higher and higher up with temple complex ontop: e. g. Called white cause of the white wash protective used on the brick: stairways and ramp led upwards almost in a spiral. Priests and leaders of community as a whole. Very scared area: (cid:862)(cid:449)aiti(cid:374)g roo(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:449)here people (cid:449)ould (cid:449)ait for the god to appear.
