مظاهر الترف في العراق القديم حتى 612 ق.م == Aspects of Luxury in Ancient Iraq until 612 B.C
Author name:
زهراء رعد محسن مطر المولى
Supervisor name:
طالب منعم حبيب الشمري
General topic:
History
Specific topic:
Ancient History
Degree:
Master
University:
Wasit University - Faculty Of Education - Department Of History
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Wasit
First pages:
11T3392 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Luxury is considered to be a normal phenomenon in many developed and progressive civilizations, especially that of ancient Iraq. It is quite normal for human beings to seek a better life with comfortable means in order to achieve enjoyment. Consequently, luxury means enjoying life with luxurious food, clothes, accommodation and power. The present study sheds light on different aspects of life in Mesopotamia and how luxuriously that community lived. Moreover, it deals with economic, social and political prosperity as well as ideological development. Luxury has its own features in every era; so we can find it out by exploring material signs at each era of in Mesopotamian history.The reason behind choosing that subject is to explore an important side of the development and progress in Iraqi civilization so as to show luxury and prosperity in Iraq society and their consequences. Moreover, there is no academic specific study that tackles that topic since some studies deal with such a topic but from different perspective despite the fact that there are a lot of texts and tablets.The study consists four chapters. The first one deals with the term luxury’ as a concept and linguistically; whereas the second chapter pinpoints the aspects of luxury in the third millennium BC. The third chapter deals with aspects of luxury in the second millennium BC. As for the fourth chapter, it tackles the aspect of luxury in the first millennium BC. The study has come up with some important conclusions. One these results is that luxury is closely related to social life since luxury starts in the community and ends and prominently emerges from political power. Besides, the study concludes that luxury is clearly shown by Iraqi people taste, inclinations and their love for art and beauty. Moreover, it seems that the common Iraqi individual used to taste the fine art in general and Iraqi princes and kings in particular who always tried to appear in an elegant royal way
