There are many artworks between the cultures of Ancient Near East through the Medieval Era that demonstrate ways political leaders constructed powerful identities‚ including the Emperor Justinian and His Attendants‚ The Maquamat of Al-Hariri‚ and the Stele of Naram-Sin. The Emperor Justinian and His Attendants artwork is from San Vitale‚ Ravenna‚ 547 BCE and is a perfect example to show how political leaders has powerful identities. This mosaic shows power through the style and context of the art piece
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White Temple and Ziggurat Ziggurats are pyramidal structures with flat tops‚ usually constructed as portions of a temple complex by many groups within the cradle of civilization. While we only have the stone remains today‚ they were more than just architectural sights to be seen. The bricks were glazed with different colors according to their level and many of the walls sported astrological artwork. At the top of ziggurats were the actual temples. This positioning was advantageous for the priests
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The rules were recorded on a stele tablet‚ a stele tablet is a huge block of stone that was placed at the temple so everyone could see them. When he showed these laws to his people he claimed that he didn’t write the laws only on his authority but on the words of the gods. Since the laws were
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was the Hammurabi’s code which was discovered by Egyptologist‚ Gustave Jequier and Jaques de Morgan in the year 1902 CE‚ during the famous Susa expedition in modern day Iran. During the expedition‚ Gustave Jequier unearthed a massive basalt stone stele covered in an ancient dialect of Mesopotamian cuneiform. To decipher the long dead language‚ Jaques commissioned cuneiform expert‚ Jean-Vincent Scheil‚ to decipher the text. In the year 1902 CE‚ Scheil published his remarkable findings within the
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MICHAEL GRAVES Submitted to : Submitted by : Mr. Ashok Pareek Kandarp Rajyaguru 2010UAR139 PETER EISENMAN Introduction * Peter Eisenman was born in 1932 in Newark‚ New Jersey. He studied architecture from 1951 to 1955 at Cornell University in Ithaca‚ New York‚ and later at Columbia University in New York City‚ and concluded his academic training in 1963 with a doctoral thesis on design theory. * He worked together with Charles Gwathmay‚ John Hejduk‚ Michael Graves and
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organs of flowering plants. The tyloses are the structures present in the woody tissues of dicot stems. These are the extension of xylem parenchyma cells into the vessel elements(NEET-II 2016). Cortex tissue is present in between the epidermis and stele. It is multilayered and is made up of parenchymatous cells with big intercellular spaces (NEET-II 2016). Wood of gymnosperms does not contain vessels.e.g- Pinus is vesseless. Vessels are the characteristic feature of angiosperms (AMU 2015). Protoxylem
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royal family that was intimately described by the king as displaying love and devotion under the protection of Aten. In House Shrine (figure 1)‚ the limestone stele‚ depicts King Akhenaten and his “Holy Family” starring his wife Queen Nefertiti and his two daughters. It was intended to be stored in a private room in the Amarna palace. The stele is decorated with an intimate scene showing the daily life of the Holy
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concentration gradient. This moves water symplastically from cell to cell by osmosis. The Apoplastic pathway moves water by capillary action of mass flow through the connecting cellulose cell wall. The endodermis marks the beginning of the central stele of vascular tissue. Both minerals and water must pass through the plasma membrane of the endodermis.
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The Code of Hammurabi The Code of Hammurabi was written by King Hammurabi‚ who began ruling the Babylonian Empire in about 1800 BC. Hammurabi came to power using his strengths as a military leader‚ conquering many smaller city-states to create his Empire. Hammurabi believed that the gods appointed him to bring justice and order to his people‚ and he took this duty very seriously. Not long after his rise to power‚ he created his Code‚ 282 laws written to define all relationships and aspects of
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Hammurabi (1792-50)‚ Stele of Hammurabi Middle Babylonian Period (1595-1155) Old Assyrian Empire (?-1500) Middle Assyrian Empire (1500-1200) Neo-Assyrian Empire (1000-612) -Tiglath-Pileser III (745-27) -Shalmaneser V (727-22) -Sargon II (721-05) -Sennacherib (704-681) New Hittite Empire (1400-1150) Neo-Babylonian Empire (747-539) -Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562) -further developed base on Sumerian foundation e.g. Ishtar Palace (c.575BC) Hammurabi’s Stele (c.1760) Assyro-Babylonian
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