Epics in miniature.(Art)

New Criterion | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

When we think of the artistic accomplishments of the Ancient Near East, it's the great monumental structures that come to mind--the ziggurat at Ur, the barrel-vaulted arch at Ctesiphon, or sprawling temple complexes such as those at Persepolis and Khorsabad, of which only fragments remain. Yet there is a body of work that ranks, not just with those, but with the greatest achievements of all art: Mesopotamian cyfinder seals, simple utilitarian objects whose inscribed images constitute a narrative art of a power and sophistication out of all proportion to their diminutive size. ...

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