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Ancient Near East Architecture (Babylonia, Assyria & Persia) Flashcards

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“Menos

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Middle

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Potamas

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River

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Where did Ancient Near East Architecture flourish

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twin rivers, tigris and euphrates

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Design of buildings are..

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elevated to dodge floods

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why did they built the ziggurats

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heavy floods

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they have timber and limestone for their construction materials

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persia

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there is rare experience of rain

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In persia

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Believers of symbolism, genies and demons

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Mesopotamians

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They were superstitious

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Mesopotamians

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Believer of good and evil. They believe that good usually triumphs in the end.

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Persians

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considered extraordinary bcs they achieved the highest degree of civilization

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Babylonians

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believe in military superiority and it manifested in their buildings

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Assyrians and persians

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(2235 BC - 2530 BC)

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Babylonian Period

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Known as Chaldean Architecture

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Babylonian Period

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Built temples, ziggurats, and tombs

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Babylonian Period

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Located between euphrates and tigres river

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Babylonian Period

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Built Palaces and Temples

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Assyrian Period

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(9th to 7th BC)

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Assyrian Period

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Composed of Ancient cities Nineveh,Nimrud, Koyunjik, and Kack Sabad

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Assyrian Period

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(538 - 333 BC)

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Persian Period

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During the persian period, structures were found in

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Pasargadae, Susa, and Persepons

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Borrowers of Style

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Persian Period

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Architecture was a mix of egyptian, babylonian, and greek style

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Persian Period

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Architectural Character (3)

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Massiveness, Monumentality, Grandeur

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Arcuated type of construction: Arch, Vault, Flat strips, buttresses with glazed tile adornment

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Assyrian and Babylonian Arch

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Columnar and Trabeated with Flat timber roof, sometimes dowed

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Persian Arch

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occupied the middle and southern part of Mesopotamia.

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the empire of Babylonia

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He ordered the construction of several temples

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King Hammurabi

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promulgate a code of 282 laws, one of which is the Code of Hammurabi

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King Hammurabi

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classic micro-manager, concerned with all aspects of his rule, and this is seen in his famous legal code

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King Hammurabi

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Where does the legal codes of Hammyrabi survive

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this stele in the louvre and on clay tablets

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vertical stone monument or marker often inscribed with text or with relief carving

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la stele

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Also known as holy mountain

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ZIGGURATS

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Chief building structure, square or rectangular in plan with steeply battered sides and an open platform on top

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Decoration of ziggurats

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Cone mosaic laid into wet plaster and colored and glazed brick.

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The highest terrace (part of ziggurat)

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Carried water away from ziggurat

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Where three staircase come together

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Allowed water to evaporate from core

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Weeper Holes

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Runs directly up the front of the ziggurat

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On either side of the staircase

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Core of Ziggurat, covered in baked bricks

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Outer Shell

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One of each level of ziggurat, covered in baked brick

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Usually have one flat top rectangular mound carrying the upper temple

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Archaic Ziggurat

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It has sloping sides, three of which had flat buttress

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The White Temple and Ziggurat at Warka

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Illustrated the origin of the Ziggurat or temple-tower, in the prehistoric Mesopotamian temple set on its platform.

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The White Temple and Ziggurat at Warka

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Subsidiary broad square platform of similar height overlapped the north corner served by a long easy steps from which a circuitous ram lead off from an intermediate landing

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The White Temple and Ziggurat at Warka

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Temple was originally whitewashed

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The White Temple and Ziggurat at Warka

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Rectangular in plan, designed with several piers or stages

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Two or More Stages of Ziggurat

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the complex comprised the ziggurat and its court, a secondary court attached to it and three great temples

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The Ziggurat of Ur - Nammu

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  • Carried the usual temple on its summit and had the normal orientation
  • Solid core of mud brick, covered with a skin of burnt brickwork
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The Ziggurat of Ur - Nammu

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Its sides were slightly convex giving an added effect of mass, with brad shallow corner buttresses.

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The Ziggurat of Ur - Nammu

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Black-representing Ea floating the dominating the water

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White- representing Apsu

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Red - representing the sun kindled air

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Blue - represented the heaven above the earth

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  • There were five tiers, the lowest is shallower than the rest, each mounted on a plinth
  • The flights of stairs recessed in the mass, led to the top of the first tier on the center of each front
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The Ziggurat of Tohoga-Zanbil

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Most of the evidence for Neo-Babylonian art and architecture is

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Of the material evidence that survives, the most important fragments are from the

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Ishtar Gate of Babylon

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known for their colorful glazed bricks, which they shaped into bas-reliefs of dragons, lions, and aurochs to decorate the Ishtar Gate.

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Neo-Babylonians

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Neo-Babylonian art and architecture reached its zenith under King

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King Nebuchadnazzer II

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King
Nebuchadnezzar Il, who ruled from

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604-562 BC

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He was a great patron of art and urban development and rebuilt the city of Babylon to reflect its ancient glory.

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King Nebuchadnazzer II

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renovated the city so that it covered 900 hectares (2,200 acres) of land and boasted some the most beautiful and impressive structures in all of Mesopotamia.

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Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BCE)

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  • with 250 towers and 100 bronze gates
  • It had an inner and outer part, each heavily fortified
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City of Babylon

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Clad in Lapis Lazuli glazed brick with a deep blue background and colored band at the base and top, the wall surface embellished by low-relief animal figures spaced across its imposing surface

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Ishtar Gate

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A prominent characteristic of Neo-Babylonian art and architecture was the use of

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brilliantly colorful glazed bricks.

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275m × 183m overall
Among its maze of rooms was a vast throne room
Its long façade decorated with polychrome glazed brick

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Hanging Garden of Babylon

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one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, dated from the late Chaldo-Babylonian kingdom.

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Hanging Garden of Babylon

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They may have comprised terraces disposed in stages, one above the other, so that each stage formed a separate garden.

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Hanging Garden of Babylon

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It appears to have been one combining the triple stairway approach and massive lower tier customary in early Mesopotamia, with upper stages arranged spirally according to Assyrian practice.

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Tower of Babel

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Expensive precinct where associated as Ziggurat

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Tower of Babel

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located on a plateau overlooking the Tigris River

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The city of Assyria

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have enough fresh water to start farming, but their access to the river let them become important traders and merchants.

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He ordered the construction of Dur-Sharrukin (Fort Sargon/Palace of Sargon)
as the new capital city shortly after he came to the throne in 721 BC.

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were planted to increase Assyrians deficient oil production.

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olive groves

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  • Polychrome ornamental brickwork
  • The use of high plinth or dadoes of great stone slab, placed on edge and usually carved with low-relief sculpture
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  • It contain 700 rooms
  • Each palace had three main parts each abutting the grand court
  • On the left of entering was a group of three temple
  • On the right, service quarter and administrative offices
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Palace of Sargon, Khorsabad

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The palace was situated on n mound raised above the plain, close to the fortified city. It was reached via a flight of steps.

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Plan of King Sargon’s Palace.
Khorsabad

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