HIST 1215 Lecture 2: 1215_Tigris
Document Summary
Desert in what is today jordan, parts of iraq. The rivers flood with irregularity - have ability to make life unbearable. Cylinder seals - an inch long with a hole in the middle carried on a necklace. Not writing, but captures the essence of writing. Homonyms (c. 3400) - bee + leaf = belief. Afterlife isn"t anything better than our world today - dark and dry and hot. House created for the god - every city has one. Uruk (c. 1990) - saddam hussein reconstructed this house. Pyramid shaped but instead they are temples for the gods at the very top with humans making offerings at the top. Greece and iraq are demanding england to return these artifacts that were essentially stolen from these countries. Also found dead bodies in a pit - 68 women and 6 men. A funeral to tell a story of the kings final journey into the afterlife.
