Compare And Contrast Mesopotamia And Greek Pottery

The Neolithic art in mesopotamia was ceramic pottery, and its quality was far superior than the Greeks pottery. These ceramics typically used a symmetrical, plant, and animals design (“Mesopotamian Art). In Babylonia about 3200 bc there is the earliest nail art, the men use kohl to paint there nails. Also some artifacts and artwork began to be ornamented with metals.

In the 3rd millennium from 3,000-2,000 bc freestanding sculpture of wood, and stone. Also along with early sculptures also primitive personal jewellery and decorative artifact appeared. Clay reliefs or slates were used to teach and narrate stories. Also other popular art forms are the cylindrical or cubical statues like ; Emperor Gudea with a vase. During the Dynasty of Akkad the art illustrated interesting relief.

In the 2nd millennium bc. the Assyrians controlled Mesopotamia which help develop the stone sculpture. These were used in monumental statues and reliefs that decorated the Palaces of Assyrians. Their most memorable sculpture were the stone carved reliefs, one of the most frequent decorative choices in the monuments and palaces. Theses reliefs contained royal hunting and battle scenes, and special attention was paid in the animals forms,like horses and lions.

Characteristics

At the neolithic or stone age to chalcolithic age, the Mesopotamians use of “ painted ornament on pottery vessels”(Lloyd 2017). They could distinguish ethnological groupings and even movements of migration by their design(2017). “The designs on their pottery, sometimes in more than one color, usually consist of zones filled with “geometric” ornament in patterns reminiscent of woven fabrics”(Lloyd 2017). Lloyd(2017) mentioned that in Hassuna Samarra pottery, they found figures such as animal, birds and humans. The interesting fact is that their symbols are still mystery or