Chapter 2 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST theocratic polytheistic propitiate shrine cuneiform iconography cone mosaics stele registers relief convention stylization inlaid composite profile frontal isometric inlaid Architecture fortified mud brick facing ziggurat load-bearing citadel fortification cella altar Chronology of Ancient Near East and Principal Sites Neolithic Era (c. 9000-4500/4000 BCE) ..............…. Jericho; Çatal Hüyük Mesopotamia…………………………………………. modern Iraq Uruk (c. 3500-3100BCE)………………. Uruk Sumer…………………………………… Sumer Early Dynastic (c.2800-2300 BCE)….. Tell Asmar; Ur Akkad (c.2300-2100 BCE)……………. Akkad Neo-Sumerian (c.2150-1800 BCE)… Lagash Babylon………………………………… Babylon Old Babylonian (c.1830-1550 BCE) Neo Babylonian (c. 612-539 BCE) Assyrian Empire (c.1100-612 BCE)… Assur Anatolia…………………………………………………. modern Turkey Hittite Empire (c.1450-1200 BCE)… Hattusas (modern Boghazköy) Ancient Iran……………………………………………. modern Iran Achaemenid Persia (539-331 BCE)… Persepolis (near modern Shiraz) Scythian (c.800-550 BCE)…………………………… modern Russia and Ukraine cylinder seal incised glyptic art votive figure hierarchical proportions dynasty attribute anthropomorphic cult column capital base shaft impost block Cyclopaean masonry elevation plinth Apadana Neolithic plastered skull, from Jericho, c. 7000 BCE
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Chronology of Ancient Near East and Principal SitesNeolithic Era (c. 9000-4500/4000 BCE) ..............…. Jericho; Çatal HüyükMesopotamia…………………………………………. modern Iraq