songs provided a means of passing on through the centuries highly important information about historical events. The Oud is a small‚ stringed musical instrument used by the Mesopotamians. The oldest pictorial record of the Oud dates back to the Uruk period‚ in Southern Mesopotamia over 5000 years ago. It is on a cylinder seal currently housed at the British Museum. The image depicts a female crouching with her instruments upon a boat‚ playing right-handed. This instrument appears hundreds of times
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History 4A Lecture Notes Fall 2012 The Origins of Western Civilization: The Ancient Mediterranean World 8/24/12 Introduction (power point on bspace contains images if desired) * Instructor: Carlos Norena * GSI: Patrick Clark‚ Brendan Haug‚ John Olmsted‚ Norman Underwood * historia (history) – Greek‚ lit. “inquiry‚ learning by inquiry; a [written] account of what has been learned by inquiry” Resources of History (example) * clay prism (Sumerian King List) * marble etchings
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taste of the Greek and the Chinese culture. This vase made up of stoneware‚ cizhuo type‚ with sgraffito to decoration. The Meiping vase was originally used as a wine vessel‚ but since the Song dynasty it became popular as a plum vase and got its name "Meiping". The pottery of the Geometric kratar is from the Dippylon cemetery in the Greek time period; with the size of 3’4 1/2’” located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ in New York. The Greek culture vase is modified as a funerary krater featuring a
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a fan of buying different types of decorations for the house. Whether its vases‚ frames‚ wall décor‚ or table décor. While looking around the living room‚ I was able to see many different works of art‚ but there was one that stood out the most to me. My mom has a ceramic vase sitting on one of the tables in the living room. This vase is ceramic and very unique. It has an oval shaped body with a small entrance top. The vase has a scenery on the front of it that consist of a Native American woman sitting
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the vase in Atonement maintains peace but creates nothing but chaos and downfall when it is destroyed. When the vase‚ the family’s heirloom‚ begins to fall apart‚ so does the family‚ until the pieces are so tiny that repair becomes clearly impossible. Throughout Ian McEwan’s Atonement‚ the vase symbolizes the destruction relationships and family bonds. The vase plays an important role in the Tallis’ family heritage. Mr. Tallis‚ in fact has a deep emotional connection to it. The Tallis vase was given
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Minoan Harvester’s vase VS Mycenaean Warrior’s vase The Harvest Vase‚ Hanga Triada‚ Crete‚ New palace Period‚ c. 1950- 1450 BCE steatite diameter 4 ½” the lower half is missing so it was reconstructed. It was carved of steatite witch is a brown and greenish soapstone. The Minoan Harvest vase is egg shaped known as a rython it was believed to be used for pouring liquid. It is decorated with 27 men with individual characteristics. The figures overlap as they appear to move forward
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The silver‚ jewel incrusted Viking- themed vase designed by George Paulding Farnham for Tiffany & Co.‚ especially for the Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo‚ New York stands alone in a centrally located glass case in the American Silver Gallery located on the fourth floor of the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas‚ Texas. Only standing eight inches high‚ the intricate details of the vase draws the viewer in and keeps them there as the eye runs over the delicate scroll and serpentine patterns of
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Mesopotamia‚ “the Land between Rivers‚” was one of the greatest and the oldest ancient civilizations of the world. This civilization flourished around 3000 B.C. on the piece of fertile land‚ now known as Iraq‚ between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Before 1792 B.C.‚ the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia were not united and constantly clashed in turmoil and warfare. In 1792 B.C.‚ King Hammurabi conquered and merged the neighboring city states of ancient Mesopotamia‚ creating a Babylonian
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Deep space and Ancient Warriors A literary symbol is something often an object that stands for a significant concept or series of ideas often a symbol is emblematic of the values of the characters. In the narrative Beowulf and the movie Star Wars‚ many aspects of symbolism are paralleled. In the movie Star Wars the most important examples are the Death Star‚ light sabers and the force. In Beowulf‚ some of the most important examples of symbolism are Grendel’s arm and head‚ the dragon’s treasure-trove
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The Flood Stories of the Ancient near East Allie Darling 9/8/13 The Flood Stories of Ancient Near East are very interesting and show what was going on throughout many parts of the East when the floods came through. Some are very similar and sometimes make you think that they are actually the same story while others make you wonder if they are even talking about a flood. One similarity of the flood stories is that In the story of Epic of Gimgamesh and in the flood story from the Book of Genesis
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