5)++++Art,+Literature+and+Music+-+Sumer+Rise


 * Art, Literature and Music of **


 * The Rise **

 ×  Heavily religion inspired  ×  Temple statues, plaques, friezes, decorative inlays and engraved cylinder seals  ×  Very musical  ×  Music largely temple based  ×  Harps and lyres beautifully constructed  ×  Painted pottery w/animals and bird designs  ×  Furniture inlaid w/ tortoiseshell and inset w/ decorative patterns made from red carnelian and blue lapis  ×  Hymns, chants, sacred dances were all religious  ×  Secular music most likely did not exist  ×  Human voice predominate  ×  “literary texts” (just to read) make up less than 1% (3000 tablets) of 250,000 tablets found  ×  Other 99% mainly economic e.g. contracts of sale, notes and receipts, lists of workers and wages. Business letters, wills and testaments  ×  2/3rd of literary tablets found in Nippur (religious capital of Sumer)  ×  Many structures dedicated to gods such as gods of sun, moon, wind and rain  ×  Used marble, diorite, hammered gold, and lapis lazuli as well  ×  Art and architecture was ornate and complex <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Painting and sculpture were main medians used <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Ziggurats invented by Sumerians <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Plaques usually represented an event such as a feast, war, building activities <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Male statues often with hands in praying position
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