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 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