Art History - Exam 1 - Chapter 2

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White Temple
Ziggurat
Uruk (modern Warka)
Reconstruction
ca. 3200 - 3000 BC

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Female Head (Inanna?)
from Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq
ca. 3200 - 3000 BC
Marble
8" high
Iraq Museum, Baghdad
The Sumerians imported the marble for this head at great cost. It may represent the goddess Inanna and originally had inlaid colored shell or stone eyes and brows, and a wig, probably of gold leaf

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Warka Vase from Uruk
Iraq
ca. 3200 - 3000 BC
(Sumerian)
Presentation of offerings to Inanna
Alabaster
3' 1/4" high
In this oldest known example of Sumerian narrative art, the sculptor divided the tall stone vase's reliefs into registers, a significant break with the haphazard figure placement found in earlier art.

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Standard of Ur, War

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Standard of Ur, Peace

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Worshippers from Eshnunna,
Iraq
2700 BCE
Sumerian
The oversized eyes probably symbolized the perpetual wakefulness of the these substitute worshippers offering prayers to the deity. The beakers the figures hold were used to pour libations in honor of the gods.

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The Ancient Near East