1. Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia
Chapter 2
Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia

2. -Where civilization originated -Writing “Cuneiform” -Potter’s Wheel
Mesopotamia
-Where civilization originated
-Writing “Cuneiform”
-Potter’s Wheel
-Sailing vessel or sail boat
-Mathematics
-Agriculture and irrigation
-Urbanization and law

3. Ancient peoples of Mesopotamia:
Sumerians
Assyrians
Akkadians
Babylonians
“The Fertile Crescent”
“The land between the Tigris and Euphrates”
“Persian”
“Epic of Gilgamesh”

4. Warka Vase
Alabaster
Inanna Temple (Uruk)
3,200-3,000 BCE
Iraq

5. White Temple,
Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq
3,200-3,000 BCE

7. Female Head (Inanna?)
Inanna Temple, Iraq
3,200-3,00BCE
Marble

31. Rhyton-
Stele-
Repousse- Hammered into relief from the reverse side
Sumer-
Lamassu-
Assyrians-
Gateway Figures-
Auroch-

34. Ur Ziggurat –
Mudbricks-
Babylon-
Faience-
Bitumen-
Citadel-
Royal Power-
Foreshortening- the use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contradiction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight
Foundry (Lost-wax process)- A workshop for casting metal

36. What is an example of early foreshortening
What is an example of early foreshortening? Was twisted perspective in the Prehistoric era a precursor to this in Mesopotamia? Why does this seem to be an important characteristic to early man and to visual artist today in 2017.

39. Linear Perspective-
A mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective)  two points (two-point perspective)  or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.