AAT-Chp. 2- Ancient Near East
c. 9000–300 B.C.
Reading
- Art Through the Ages:Chapter 2:The Ancient Near East
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Clay tablet with the pictograph text that preceded cuneiform, Jemdet Nasr, Iraq, c. 3000 B.C.
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Glossary
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Video Resources (where available)
These are good extra resources but are not required viewing and not on reserve at any of your local libraries.
- Ancient Mesopotamia (10 min, 1976, Coronet/MTI)
- Art in Ancient Lands, Part 1 (36 min, Clearvue)
- Art of the Near East and Ancient Egypt (66 min, Clearvue)
- Elements of Sculpture: Monuments, Temples and Tombs, filmstrip (15 min, Clearvue)
- Iraq: Cradle of Civilization (60 min, 1992, VM)
- Treasures of the British Museum: Sumer, Babylon, Assyria: The Wolves (26 min, FFTH)