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9 Cards in this Set
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Ziggurat |
rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple |
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Votive |
offered or consecrated in fulfillment of a vow |
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Composite view |
Figure is in both profile and frontal view |
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Hierarchy of Scale |
Artist uses unnatural proportion to show importance/status of figures. |
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Stylization |
conform to a conventional style |
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Shamash |
Babylonian sun god, worshiped as the author of justice and compassion |
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Hittites |
1700-1200 BC Established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria |
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Assyrians |
Inhabitants of ancient Assyria |
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Neo-Babylonians |
626-539 BC Empire was a period of Mesopotamian history |
