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Art, Literature & Music

__Art__ []>. - Kingdom of Elam, was found to have the most important pieces in art -The Elamites have made many art pieces, specifically painted pottery -Remains of huge royal palaces found that stood at Pasargadae, Persepolis, and Susa (now present Iran) (Shutter, p.25-27) -Elamites were very good with metal-work -There was s unique mixture of Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and other cultures throughout the art pieces -Goblets, plates, and other objects made of gold during the Neo-Elamite & Persian Empire found -Many museums exhibit ancient Persian & Elam textiles, rugs, & pottery

[] -After Alexander the Great conquered Persia (long after the Elamite civilization), many silver art objects have been found, & became popular during the time

[] -Many art pieces found at the sight of Susa & Persepolis -Metal-work & the art of glazing bricks flourished in Elam -Inscribed text on the tablets proves there was a great industry in weaving, tapestry, & embroidery  __Language & Literature__ **(**Shutter, pg. 14-16) -They wrote on tablets (pieces of clay) -They spoke the Elamite Language & later Old Persian -They used Cuneiform script -It is one of the earliest known forms of written expression -It emerged in Sumer around the 30th century B.C -Cuneiform writing began a system of pictographs -Some stories of ancient heroes & stories about floods of the Euphrates & Tigris Rivers The script inspired the Ugaratic and Old Persian national alphabets -There is little known of the literature of the ancient Elamite periods

[] -It was a system used only for royal inscriptions, because only a few people could read it -After the 3rd millennium B.C, the pictorial representations became more abstract & simple - Alphabetic writing gradually replaced cuneiform writing by in the Neo-Assyrian Empire -Cuneiform documents was written on clay tablets -The Sumerian script was adapted for writing of the Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, and other languages []

__Music & Instruments__ -There is nothing found on the music of the Elamite period -But, there are a number of instruments found on sculptures

[] -The vase of Naprisha & the silver Paleo-Elamite vase from Marv-Dasht, near Persepolis are carrying a pair of instruments resembling castanets -The vase was made in the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C (approx. during the Mid/Golden Age period)

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