ARTH 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inanna, Egyptian Pyramids, Nimrud
3 May 2019
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Mesopotamia (land between two rivers) today = iraq and iran. Akkad, assyria, sumer, persia, babylonian (some places we"ll be talking about. They have soft material like clay and they impress upon the clay with the stylus and create these shapes art. Sumerian fertility goddess inanna > then when the egyptians take over isis > then when. Greeks take over aphrodite > then when romans take over venus. Votive gures tend to look out at you/tends to be an emphasis on the eyes: offerings to innana-bottom natural world (plants)-next layer animals-top layer goddess. May be some sort of marriage idea-notion of a marriage between a goddess and priest-like. Gure- rst time we"ve seen these registers represented on a vase: this was repatriated-not sure whether this is inanna as well. Odd things about it-the line on top (perhaps it was placed onto a wooden body) Exam-no images in the rst part (multiple choice)
