NEAR EAST
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- Stele
- an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
- groundlines
- in paintings and reliefs, a painted or carved baseline on which figures appear to stand
- Hammurabi
- Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)
- Mesopotamia
- "Land between two rivers". Area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- Stylization
- the act of stylizing
- city state
- a state consisting of a sovereign city
- Ziggurat
- a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- Relief sculpture
- a type of sculpture in which forms pop-up from a background
- Lamassu
- Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull
- Citadel
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- Lyre
- a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
- Cuneiform writing
- The earliest writing in Mesopotamia was a picture writing invented by the Sumerians who wrote on clay tablets using long reeds.