ARCH 121  /  History of Art & Architecture 1: From Caves to Catacombs

 

Origins of Cuneiform Writing Clay Tablet.

Account concerning grain, in cuneiform script  

Vase.

Uruk.  c. 3500-3000 BCE.  Alabaster, height 36”

Votive figures.  Temple at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar, Iraq). 

c. 2900-2600.  Limestone, alabaster or gypsum, 30 inches and smaller 

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