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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 9 page paper examines the deep and
constant relationship peoples of ancient
civilizations had with their gods. The
countries of the ancient world used to
make this point are Sumer and Egypt. A
small religious statue of the god Abu of
Sumer, The Prince of Lagash is compared
with the intimate nineteenth dynasty
Egyptian statue, Nedjem. Bibliography
lists 5 sources.
Page Count:
9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBlagash.doc.
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happened in the third millennium - that is three thousand years before the birth of Christ for those of us who are mathematically challenged. This is the challenge
which must be considered when dealing with Sumerian art, or any other art pieces from the ancient world. The evidence comes out of a very different world, one in
which people tended to understand what happened to them as caused by supernatural agencies, gods, and demons, rather than as the outcome of rational causes. These same peoples turned
to their gods in all instances, booth for support as well as protection. And since history, usually, excludes all supernatural dieties and forces , the historian of ancient
Sumer thus finds himself faced with an obvious problem, real enough to justify looking into, the problem of knowing or understanding the Sumerian religious structure. One way of doing that
is to consider what has already been determined. The accepted authority is Colingwoods classical study of Sumerian art in The Idea of History (Jacobsen ppg). Collingwood chooses
for discussion a Sumerian inscription written around the middle of the third millennium B.C., known as "The Cone of Entemena." It deals with a boundary dispute between two Sumerian city-states,
god Ningirsu, and Umma, with its god Shara. And begins as follows: "The god Enlil, king of all lands, father of all gods, determined by his just ruling the
territorial borderline for the god Ningirsu and the god Shara. Mesalim, king of Kishi, checked at the bidding of his personal god Ishtaran the tautness of the measuring
lineand set up stelae at the spot indicated. Ush, ruler of Umma acted arrogantly, he tore out those stelae and carried them into the plain of Lagash. Enlils warrior,
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