# data[].attributes.body
(Leah) (Jesus)
Ancient Sumer roughly corresponds to our Southern Iraq today.
Had a dozen or so independent city states under the protection of different mesopotamian deities.
Since the Sumerians developed a strong agriculture the people were able to specialize in other activities such as trade, manufacturing, and administration.
The city state was ruled by either a single person or a council chosen from the leading families. At first, around 3400 to 3200 BCE, the Sumerians made inventories of cattle, food, and other items by drawing pictographs, often in boxes, in soft clay with a sharp tool.The clay hardened into tablets, thousand of the tablets dating back nearly five millennia, exist today.The Sumerians also produced great literature.

# data[].attributes.body
It was the start of one of the most symbolic relationships in art history between patron and artist.

Royalty always believed that artists could raise their status.

Artist could glorify royalty, with images and sculptures that would.

# data[].attributes.body
-Ningirsu , local god of Lagash and Girsu , helped Eannatum defeat an enemy army.
-Marduk, the chief god of the Babylonians
-Nabu, Babylonian god of writing and wisdom
-Adad, Babylonian god of storms
-Ashur , he became king of the Assyrian gods

# data[].attributes.headline
Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia (Madison)

# data[].attributes.subject
Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia (Madison)

# data[].attributes.body
The mesopotamian's started to learn a lot to help fix their urban society. they learned to read and write, how to use wheel and plow to control floods and irrigation canals. they also used pictures to tell coherent stories.

# data[].attributes.body
Ancient eastern art takes place mostly in Mesopotamia it is often times inspired by religion , kings often assume divine attributes .
Figures are constructed .within

# data[].attributes.body
The men on the Isculpture are nude and present their bounty to the goddess as a votive offering (a gift of gratitude)

# data[].attributes.body
sumerian art has realistic looking figures acting out identifiable narratives

this type of art uses a lot of negative space

the men in this art would be beard-chested

the women would always have their left shouder covered.

Clay was the Sumerians most abundant material.

# data[].attributes.body
some art historians interpret the scene as a symbolic marriage between the priest-king and the goddess, ensuring her continued goodwill.