It's free to use and each article or document can be downloaded. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Warka. What I find absolutely amazing, is that no one is commenting on the fact that the head is actually carved out of marble, but in a way as to mimmic a head sculpted out of clay. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 10 May 2019. Warka (Marka) Mask, Mali. About the Author. 20 relations. Original video by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin.
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This is the so called "Mask of Warka", made between 3300 BC and 3000 BC. What I think happened is that there was another, earlier, original, clay head, of which this stone head is a copy. Look at the hair. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships. They look like they were gouged by a single stroke of a sharp piece of reed or wood through a soft clay. The Warka people are also known as the Marka. More languages soon. This website claims no authorship of this content; we are republishing it for educational purposes. Amin, Osama S. M. "The Mask of Warka, Warka Vase, and Shalmaneser III's Throne Dais." Lady of Uruk, Lady of Warka, The Mask of Warka, Warka mask. Look at the eyebrows. The Mask of Warka, Warka Vase, and Shalmaneser III's Throne Dais. Remove Ads Advertisement. What is strange is that if you were doing this head straight out of a piece of stone, the unfinished parts wouldn't look like this. Which would make the "sketched" or "unfinished" or "unpolished" parts of the head invisible, and which is why the artist didn't bother to finish them. We have also been recommended for educational use by the following publications: Ancient History Encyclopedia Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in Canada. It was found in the temple precinct of Inanna, Uruk (today village of Warka)... Everyone is raving about this piece of art because it is considered to be the first anatomically correct depiction of the human face in Mesopotamia. Web. Look at the bottoms of both eyes, the thin lip of the material sticking out, like it was pressed out and down during the cutting movement. Ancient History Encyclopedia Limited is a non-profit company registered in the United Kingdom. They look like they were gouged by a single stroke of a sharp piece of reed or wood through a soft clay. Here is another picture of the Mask of Warka, uder different light, which makes it look like it was made of clay. Here is another picture of the Mask of Warka, uder different light, which makes it look like it was made of clay. The Mask of Warka, Warka Vase, and Shalmaneser III's Throne Dais. https://www.ancient.eu/video/1738/. To me this is totally fascinating... How did this stay unnoticed I have no idea. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. 12 Nov 2020. for the academic world: for school, primary, secondary, high school, middle, technical degree, college, university, undergraduate, master's or doctoral degrees; It's a tool, resource or reference for study, research, education, learning or teaching, that can be used by teachers, educators, pupils or students; Embedded by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, published on 10 May 2019. He copied everything exactly as he saw on the model. Amin, O. S. M. (2019, May 10). U.S. and Iraqi officials Tuesday announced the return of the Warka Mask, billed as one of the most important artifacts looted from the Iraqi National Museum during the fall of Baghdad in April. But they would look exactly like this if you made the head out of clay. Here is another picture of the Mask of Warka, uder different light, which makes it look like it was made of clay. I mean even the eyes look like they were cut by a sharp knife in a single stroke. For whom have I journeyed? I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts … To me it looks like someone made a quick sketch of a human head in clay, and told a stonemason: this is how you do it. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin. It had a wig, false eyebrows and false eyes, which covered the "unfinished bits"... That head was sacred. This is one of the finest examples of Marka masks made in wood and covered by red cloth with brass fittings and a strong and sculptural expression.
Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/video/1738/. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Catalan, Czech, Hebrew, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Greek, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Filipino, Latvian, Estonian and Slovenian. Amin, Osama S. M. "The Mask of Warka, Warka Vase, and Shalmaneser III's Throne Dais." This is a giant online mental map that serves as a basis for concept diagrams. The video showcases the Mask of Warka, the Warka Vase, and the throne-dais of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III. So he did. I mean even the eyes look like they were cut by a sharp knife in a single stroke. It's like the icons painters who copy icons exactly, because they believe that they are miraculous, sacred, exactly the way they are... Look at the eyebrows. But then we have the most delicately and beautifully sculpted bottom half of the head. The Ancient History Encyclopedia logo is a registered EU trademark. Some Rights Reserved (2009-2020) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted.
The video showcases the Mask of Warka, the Warka Vase, and the throne-dais of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III. They look like they were gouged by a single stroke of a sharp piece of reed or wood through a soft clay. It looks like crudely fashioned with few thumb strokes going from back forward... Was this an exact marble copy of previously existing clay head? A US military mission to recover lost artifacts found the mask, undamaged, buried in a farmer's backyard. for papers, reports, projects, ideas, documentation, surveys, summaries, or thesis. Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. I mean even the eyes look like they were cut by a sharp knife in a single stroke. Look at the eyebrows. Last modified May 10, 2019. Here is the definition, explanation, description, or the meaning of each significant on which you need information, and a list of their associated concepts as a glossary. They reside mainly in the northern region of Bambara territory in the country of Mali. Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia.
TIL that the Mask of Warka, the oldest discovered accurate depiction of a human face (3100 BC), disappeared from the National Museum of Iraq after the 2003 US invasion.