The Ideological and Aesthetic Relationship Between Ur And Ebla During The Third Millennium B. C

Abstract

The paper focus on the main economic differences related to secondary urbanism processes in Lower Mesopotamia and Northern Syria and will compare some of the extraordinary art masterpieces (collected during excavations) from the Early Dynastic and Early Syrian periods, such as composite works that adopted more ancient aesthetic concepts. The economic difference between these two urbanisms and the technological analogy between their official figurative representations will reveal that the two worlds had similar aesthetic concepts which came from the Sumerian habitus. This was not only linguistically ‘ideographic’, but also cognitive and political

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