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What is Dance in Ancient Mesopotamia about?
The dancing figures of Mesopotamia are perhaps some of the most varied and unusual examples of these figures known in the Near East.1 The richness of the Mesopotamian artifact assemblages illustrating dancers and musicians is unparalleled. The vibrant prehistoric painted designs of dancers were replaced, with the ascendancy of plain wares in Mesopotamia, by wall paintings, cylinder seals and ceramic figures and plaques. Although it was executed on a variety of materials, the motif appears in virtually every Mesopotamian culture even into the seventh century CE and beyond. Where Figures of Dancers Can Be Found With the invention of the potter's wheel around 3500 BCE , , in southern Mesopotamia, plain wares replaced painted pottery, which up until then had provided the main vehicle for depictions of dance. Wall-paintings have only very S rarely survived in Mesopotamia because of the predominant use of mudbrick architecture, the high water table and the salts in the soil. Stone is only available in northern Mesopotamia, but the south had to rely on imported stone. \ , Because of the expense involved, imported stone was used for official-generally royal-stelae, but these are not the \
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- Author
- Dominique Collon
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)