Introduction

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Overview

Major Styles Mozan Group, DUMU NINTU and variations.

Deep Fringe, Globular Style

Classic Early Dynastic and Akkadian

Schematic and Geometric Styles.

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The Mozan Group

Stylistic characteristics: elegant designs, movement in figures (ex the “Minoan man ), unusual positions (eg. bent figs and especially two bent figs below insc), See discussion of bent figures in my notebook.

Another indication of the range of subject matter and composition in this group is A1.364. On the left is a standing human figure with a skirt fringed at the bottom at least and a flat hat. The rest of the rolling is divided into two. The lower register has a kneeling figure with both hands on a large vessel, perhaps making it. This composition is unusual and shows ths same idea as the bent figures, that is people working at every day activities and in poses that take up only about half of the height of the composition. Another composition with a similar theme is A5.141. The theme may revolve around a banquet but the emphasis is on the vessels and the figures connected with them and not the banquet per se.