costume and art history

1. MESOPOTAMIA
(3500BC—612BC)
ZHU JIA

2. Background
• Geography

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• MESOPOTAMIA:
– The Sumerians: (3500—2800BC)
– The Babylonians(2800—1700BC)
– The Assyrian(1700—612BC)

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• The Sumerians:
– First cities in south Mesopotamia
– Invented a form of writing
– Never developed a strong political organization

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• The Babylonians:
– Dominated Sumerians
– The capital was at Babylon
– Social structure:
• Free men: artisans, tradesmen, public officials, laborers
• The poor: “Worth a little” (Farmers)
• The slaves: “Worth nothing”

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• The Assyrian
– Conquered Babylonia
– Developed the first great military machine,
weapons (iron, swords, etc)
– The army was very cruel
– Has variety of climates: required warm clothing

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• The family
– Marriage was a contractual arrangement: it is to
strengthen the economic alliance between 2
families
– The man had a principal wife, but usually keep
one or more concubines
– Divorce was easy to obtain when the principle
wife was unable to have children

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24. Garment
• For men:
– Skirt , Loincloth, Tunic
– Draped garment
– Hair: clean-shaven & beards
– Hats
– Footwear

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• For women:
– Kaunakes
– Draped garments
– Hair
– Footwear: bare feet & sandals
– Jewelry

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35. Textile
• Flax:
– Occasionally mentionaed, but linen
was less important than wool
• Wool:
– The most important for clothing,
tapestries, curtains, etc

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51. Assignment
• Review vocabulary
• Find 5 pictures of ancient period
garment, and 5 pictures of our day
fashion designer’s work which
influenced by ancient period garment
that you found
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