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2007 | Home > Events > Lectures & Symposia > 2007 > Lecture - 'Incongruent Corpora: Writing and Art in Ancient Iraq' |
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Lecture - 'Incongruent Corpora: Writing and Art in Ancient Iraq' Date: 2/15/2007 - 2/16/2007; 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Location: Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor Host Department: Institute for the Humanities Jerrold S. Cooper, W. W. Spence professor in Semitic Languages Department of Near Eastern Studies The Johns Hopkins University Cosponsored by LSA Department of Near Eastern Studies Detailed Information Both writing and narrative art were technologies that emerged to facilitate the earliest urban polities in ancient Iraq in the mid-fourth millennium BC. Despite early formal similarities and complementary functions, writing and art soon diverged both in appearance and in the conceptual corpora that informed them. This divergence remained profound throughout the entire history of ancient Mesopotamia, culminating in the curious case of the Assyrian "hieroglyphs" of the 8th-7th centuries BC. Profusely illustrated. Free and open to the public. Contact Information Doretha Coval (734) 936-3518 humin@umich.edu |
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