Mesopotamia
civilization begins
Bände/Inhalt:
- Introduction : Does History Begin in Mesopotamia? / Ariane Thomas -- The Mesopotamian Collection of the Musée du Louvre / Ariane Thomas -- The Discoverers of Ancient Mesopotamia / Nicole Chevalier -- Mesopotamia as Viewed by the Moderns / Michael Seymour -- Mesopotamia in Modern Imagery -- A Pioneering Economy / Cécile Michel -- A Religious World / Benjamin R. Foster -- First Cities : Cities of Mesopotamia, from Uruk to Babylon / Pascal Butterlin -- Clay Architecture in Mesopotamia / Pedro Azara -- First Writing : Cuneiform and the Scribal Tradition / Béatrice André-Salvini -- First Kingdoms : When Kingship Descended from Heaven... / Dominique Charpin -- War and Peace : From the Birth of the State to Great Empires / Zainab Bahrani -- Ancient Mesopotamia Viewed from the Outside / Francis Joannès -- Epilogue : Imaginary Journey from Mesopotamia to Iraq / Ariane Thomas -- From Mesopotamia to Iraq, from 1850 to the Present -- Catalogue of the exhibition. First Cities : Catalogue nos. 1-39 -- First Writing : Catalogue nos. 40-91 -- First Kingdoms : Catalogue nos. 92-133 -- Appendix 1 : Mesopotamian Archaeology at the Museum : A Few Virtual Possibilities -- Appendix 2 : Restoring and Reassembling Objects for the Exhibition.
- Ancient Mesopotamia, a region that mainly corresponds to modern-day Iraq, has a record of human activity dating back nearly fifteen thousand years. Writing was invented in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium BCE, and urbanization reached new heights of social, economic, and architectural sophistication there. A cultural melting pot, Mesopotamia was the source of many myths, which in turn influenced Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, Arabic, and Persian traditions. For these reasons and many others, it is still considered the "cradle of civilization."0'Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins' presents a rich panorama of ancient Mesopotamian history, from its earliest prehistoric cultures to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE. This catalogue records the beauty and variety of the objects on view in the Getty's exhibition, on loan from the Louvre's unparalleled collection of ancient Near Eastern antiquities: cylinder seals, monumental sculptures, cuneiform tablets, jewelry, glazed bricks, paintings, figurines, and more. Essays by international experts explore a range of topics, from the earliest French excavations to Mesopotamia's economy, religion, cities, cuneiform writing, rulers, and history-as well as its enduring presence in the contemporary imagination.00Exhibition: The Getty Villa, Los Angeles, USA (18.03.-27.07.2020).