Victory Stele Of Naram-Sin Essay

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The works titled; Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, Akkadian, 2250 BC and Stele of Hammurabi, babylonia, 1780 BC are both steles, which are large carved slabs of stone used to commemorate historical events or in same cases mark graves depending on the culture. Both works have many stylistic characteristics which were typical of mesopotamian art. They both utilized techniques such as the combined pose as well as hierarchy of scale. They both also rebuke certain classic mesopotamian stylistic choices. The Victory stele of Naram-Sin, for example, has one of the first landscapes in the history of art, and both share a lack of registers. Registers are a storytelling format using lines to separate different parts of a relief, painting etc. The victory stele of Naram-Sin was made to commemorate his defeat of the Lullubi, which were a people from the mountains of Iran to the east. It depicts a relief of Naram-Sin leading his well organized army to the top of a mountain, the defeated army is in disarray at there feet. Naram-Sin stands along above his men who are staggered on the front of the mountain (which is what the artist did instead of using registers.) Three stars shine above him as he steps on two dead enemy soldiers.The Stele of Hammurabi however, was not made to commemorate a victorious battle but instead was made to commemorate Hammurabi's now …show more content…

He has no godly attributes and the sun god is larger which shows the difference in class between the two clearly showing that Hammurabi is not a god. Hammurabi also has his hand raised in respect and is being offered a rod and ring which is a symbol of authority. So unlike Naram-Sin who was saying he was close enough to a god that he can just claim the authority of akkadia himself, Hammurabi has the sun god is passing the authority to rule to hammurabi to show that his rules was allowed and blessed by the gods which allows him to claim

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