Essay On Gudea Statues
Statues and sculptures of early ages provide rich information for modern history about the past because they reflect cultures, traditions and lifestyle of those times and also carry writing symbols like cuneiform, hieroglyph etc. The comparison of such statues is very useful in the cultural context because it brings understanding of differences and similarities depending on location, period, and origin of suggested pieces of art.
Too compare the Statues of Memi and Sabu and Seated Statue of Gudea let’s consider its general characteristics combined in the table below. Seated statue of Gudea Statue of Memi and Sabu
Period 2150–2100 b.c 2575–2465 b.c.
Culture Neo–Sumerian Egyptian
Original location Southern Mesopotamia Giza
Height 44 cm 62 cm …show more content…
The Statue of Memi and Sabu was made about five ages earlier. Painted limestone of the Statue of Memi and Sabu looks brighter than Gudea’s diorite. This fact induces more positive emotions in the mind of observers. Not only brightness makes us think of Memi and Sabu in more positive manner. The pair looks happy together because the husband embraces her wife over the neck and shoulder and puts his left palm on her breast. In respond she embraces him around his waist. It seems like they both smile a little bit. They look like modern couple.
Gudea was local ruler who devoted his life to reconstruct temples in Lagash and putting his statues there. This characterizes him as a vain ruler who glorifies himself as most rulers of ancient ages although. Gudea is depicted in the seated pose of a ruler before his subjects, his hands folded in a traditional gesture of greeting and prayer. He looks restrained and significant.
Conclusion
Since the people of those ages strongly believed in life after death they had traditions of memorizing themselves on the earth by putting their statues in mausoleums, tombs and temples. Thus both of these statues had the same purpose – to perpetuate people carved in stone. And the purpose was accomplished because the statues were found many centuries later by modern people who learn lives of
Too compare the Statues of Memi and Sabu and Seated Statue of Gudea let’s consider its general characteristics combined in the table below. Seated statue of Gudea Statue of Memi and Sabu
Period 2150–2100 b.c 2575–2465 b.c.
Culture Neo–Sumerian Egyptian
Original location Southern Mesopotamia Giza
Height 44 cm 62 cm …show more content…
The Statue of Memi and Sabu was made about five ages earlier. Painted limestone of the Statue of Memi and Sabu looks brighter than Gudea’s diorite. This fact induces more positive emotions in the mind of observers. Not only brightness makes us think of Memi and Sabu in more positive manner. The pair looks happy together because the husband embraces her wife over the neck and shoulder and puts his left palm on her breast. In respond she embraces him around his waist. It seems like they both smile a little bit. They look like modern couple.
Gudea was local ruler who devoted his life to reconstruct temples in Lagash and putting his statues there. This characterizes him as a vain ruler who glorifies himself as most rulers of ancient ages although. Gudea is depicted in the seated pose of a ruler before his subjects, his hands folded in a traditional gesture of greeting and prayer. He looks restrained and significant.
Conclusion
Since the people of those ages strongly believed in life after death they had traditions of memorizing themselves on the earth by putting their statues in mausoleums, tombs and temples. Thus both of these statues had the same purpose – to perpetuate people carved in stone. And the purpose was accomplished because the statues were found many centuries later by modern people who learn lives of