History Of Art And Architecture (Mesopotamian Period)

Known as the cradle of civilizations because of its enormous advances and contributions including domestication of animals, trade and coinage, legal government, potter's wheel, wagon wheel, alphabet, architecture, and astronomy. 

Historical period of the mesopotamian civilization that contributed the cuneiform and the ziggurat. 

A system of writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of small, wedge-shaped elements. 

World's first literature

Artificial mound accumulated from the remains of one or more ancient settlements. 

Short-lived and collapsed two centuries after its establishment. Characterized by fortifications of cyclopean stone masonry and gateways with portal sculpture. 

Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and has been associated with the architectural wonders of Babylon

A great military power. palaces took precedence over religious buildings. 

Cyrus the Great defeated the babylonians. Architecture developed under the achaemenid dynasty of kings. 

Assyrian winged bull

A pattern along the top of a parapet. 

Mesopotamian courtyard to which all  the rooms opened to. 

Building that houses the Entu priestesses

Artificial mountains made of tiered rectangular layers which rose in number from one to seven in the course of mesopotamian history. 

Entrance gate to the palace of sargon, named after the goddess of war, fertility and love. 

Great palace built by nebuchadnezzar for his wife, Amytis

Built on a stone platform, consisted of multi-columned buildings. Access to the platform was a long double stairway. 

Large hypostile hall, or audience hall. About 109 square meters with 36 columns each more than 19 m tall

Hall of 100 columns in persepolis

Royal treasury in persepolis

Comprises 300 statutes written in akkadian on 51 columns

Text etched into the stone of the mountain describing the manner in which Darius became the king of Persia