Sumerian Votive Statues - Episode 1 - Mesopotamian Object Stories

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Further reading
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📗Aruz, Joan (ed.) 2003. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
📘Bahrani, Zainab 2017. Art of Mesopotamia. London: Thames & Hudson.
📗Crawford, Harriet (ed.) 2012. The Sumerian world. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge.
📘Evans, Jean 2021. A Reconsideration of the So-Called Single-Shrine Temple at Tell Asmar. In Altaweel, Mark R. and Carrie A. Hritz (eds), From Sherds to Landscapes: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of McGuire Gibson, 91-108. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 71. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
📗----- 2020. Case Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard. In Garcia-Ventura, Agnes and Lorenzo Verderame (eds), Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond, 33-47. Columbus, GA: Lockwood Press.
📘----- 2013. The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture. In Brow, Brian A. and Marian H. Feldman (eds), Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art, 645-665. Berlin: De Gruyter.
📗----- 2012. The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
📘----- 2012. Reconstruction of Statues and Statue from Tell Asmar, Iraq. In Picturing the Past:, Green, Jack, Emily Teeter, and John A. Larson (eds), Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East, 141-142. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 34. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
📗----- 2007. The Square Temple at Tell Asmar and the Construction of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia, ca. 2900-2350 B.C.E. American Journal of Archaeology 4: 599-632.
📘Frankfort, Henri 1939. Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah. Oriental Institute Publications 44. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
📗Frayne, Douglas R. and Johanna H. Stuckey 2021. A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns.
📘Lloyd, Seton 1942. The Abu Temple at Tell Asmar. In Delougaz, Pinhas and Seton Lloyd (eds), Pre-Sargonid Temples in the Diyala Region, 156-217. Oriental Institute Publications 58. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
📗Van de Mieroop, Marc 2007. A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

[@DrBrianaJackson]

Apologies for the echo in the microphone -- not sure why that happened. Also, I gave the auto closed captioning a try in case some people don't like the embedded ones. Saves work for me, and gives choices to you!

[@damaracarpenter8316]

Thank you for this fantastic video! Academic videos on ancient Mesopotamia are sadly lacking on youtube so this is a welcome discovery!

[@DrBrianaJackson]

Thank you for your fantastic comment!! I’ve got a Pazuzu video I’m currently working on but I keep getting sidetracked by more and more work stuff, but it’s the next one!

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Spectacular pieces and a very informative video Briana

[@ziidur]

Excelent content

[@PhonyFisherman]

Great video Dr. Jackson. May I proffer: The deliberate breaking of parts of the body could also be the reasoning for the offering... it could represent the injury they are praying for relief from. A thought. Cheers!

[@DrBrianaJackson]

That’s a cool idea!

[@PhonyFisherman]

@@DrBrianaJackson Thank you Doctor. My Father and my Archeo prof would be glad to hear it! I am :)

[@rubyroubaix5611]

Extreme pupillary dilatation can be caused by ingestion of alkaloid containing plants, which may also have psychoactive properties. Is there any indication that the recipient god was associated with any particular plants or plant species?

[@DrBrianaJackson]

To say the information we have on the god Abu is scant is being generous. So no further details on plants, sadly.

[@rubyroubaix5611]

Thank-you so much. @@DrBrianaJackson

[@marijaokic2427]

Wonderful! ❤ I was really looking forward to the start of his series. 🎉

[@DrBrianaJackson]

I hope you like the choice of object 👀

[@marijaokic2427]

Great choice, as always. I really enjoyed the video. Whenever you get the next one ready, it will be worth waiting. 😊 Best wishes.@@DrBrianaJackson

[@DrBrianaJackson]

@@marijaokic2427 thanks!

[@LSOP-]

I really enjoy your content, can you fix your audio? You sound like you are talking into a bucket, it's unlistenable.

[@DrBrianaJackson]

I was 🗣️🪣😜

[@damaracarpenter8316]

@@DrBrianaJackson I found it fine to listen to. Obviously not perfect but from my laptop speakers I understood everything clearly.