Ancient Near East Art Analysis

Art has been a key attribute in religious worship that has overstepped ages. The art of the Ancient near East demonstrates a clear artwork of the ancient times of notable arts and architecture that played an important part in religious worship. These artworks and architecture can be arranged into significant eras like Persian, Assyrian, and Neo-Babylonian with complex and meaningful standards. More importantly, in dismembering the significance of these pieces, it is wise to review their motive, iconography and ethnic context. In my essay the two (2) arts and architecture that were used in religious worship from Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Near East that I will discuss are the ANU Ziggurat and White Temple and the Stele of Hummaurabi.

The dilapidations of the ANU Ziggurat and White Temple are a symbol of important art and architecture that was practiced in religious worship.

The ANU Ziggurat was a spectacular statue in the Southern Mesopotamia on which the White Temple was constructed. Originally, the White Temple was intended for the Mesopotamia God of sky which is also known as Anu. The Ziggurats were finished with mud-bricks which was the selected building concrete in the Near East. The Ziggurats aside from sacrificing a observable center of attention of the City, they also exemplified the theocratic diplomatic structure where a god was perceived as the leader. Therefore, the iconography of the ziggurats was a perceptible bond to god or virtue distinguished in a given place. Belief was extremely considered in the prehistoric Mesopotamia culture. The Sumerians had the impression that gods were from the peak. The purpose for the ziggurats to take after peaks was to accommodate the gods and to be near the City. Given by the significance of belief in the Mesopotamia ethnic context, the spiritual view might have motivated people to engage in the erection of the project, but there is also a theory that some type of slavery may have also been

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The Stele of Hammurabi is an example of art and it is also a code of law instructed by Hammurabi, the 6th King of Babylon. Hammurabi rises as a supreme leader who dreaded god, and for that cause wanted to conduct goodness in Babylon by obtaining orders from Shamash the sun of god. The code of laws was directed to guide wisdom in the land by eliminating the sinners, in which a discipline was restricted for any wrong between the constitutions of an eye for an eye. The Code of Hammurabi was generated in a cultural surrounding where there were a great deal of corruptions and imbalance in the public standing. For that reason, the Code of Hammurabi indicated an advanced administration that identified fairness for and over all advanced integrity in view to admiration for God. Given that Hammurabi was afraid of God, he desired to inspire beliefs and good outlooks in the way mankind proceeded, mostly on importance of wrong doing and the relativizing disciplines. More importantly, the Stele of Hammurabi desired to encourage righteousness and equality just as god would desire.