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المرجعية العقائدية للنحت العراق القديم : دراسة تحليلية == The Religious Reference of The Ancient Iraqi Sculpture : Analysis Study
Author name:
حمد سلطان ضرغام السعدون
Supervisor name:
مرتضى عبود شهاب حداد
General topic:
Fine Arts
Specific topic:
Sculpture
Degree:
Doctorate
University:
University of Baghdad - College Of Fine Arts - Fine Arts Department
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
18T1126 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Old Iraqi Sculpture related since first existence with solid relations with religious thought, sculpture and religious belief are correlated phenomena since their first existence ,got them clear developments impact on each other.This study entitled (The Religious Reference of The ancient IraqiSculpture) are looking for Religious reference to old Iraqi sculpture , is an attempt to answer the questions posed by researcher in the problem included in the first chapter , this study included four chapters the first chapter devoted of a methodological framework for the research which include the definition of the search problem that summarize with the following questions ;Is there are a relationship between sculpture and religious belief ?And if there is really some kind of relationship, what kind of relationship ?And how the religious factor impact in the shape of the sculpture ?How religion executed in sculpture ?The chapter also contains the definition about research goals, which included two objectives ;Identify the ideological reference in old Iraqi sculpture - Identify the impact of sculpture on religious beliefs in ancient Iraq - The research identified with the study the works of sculpture of the religious and ideological content formats in relief sculptureand in the stereotactic and researcher excluded cylinder and flat seals from his research because it is of special technical nature and the objectives of production differ from the objectives of the stereoscopic and prominent sculptures that produced in purelyreligious goals as study identified with sculptures dating back to the time period from 3500 BC to the end of the Assyrian State in 600 BC and chapter including the definition for some terms needed.Chapter II devoted to the theoretical framework which contained three topics were allocated to ;Study the assembly thought and religious belief with the old man. - - Religious thought in ancient Iraq and the Gods that enshrined and worshipped in all periods of history of ancient Iraq. - Study of myths and rituals being a theoretical and practical framework for religion in ancient Iraq. - it is also included previous studies and a summary of the theoretical framework.The third chapter devoted to study of the dialectical relationship between the sculpture and the old Iraqi beliefs and the effects of each other and serves as the research process where the researcher analyzes the works in accordance with the relationship between the content of religion, signs and symbols and properties of the Gods mentioned in myths as evidence from which to infer a relationship between sculpture and religious beliefs and the effects of each upon the other, the models studied based on time periods that belonged to these models ; - ( Sculptures dating back to 3500 BC (4th millennium BC - Sculptures dating back to 3rd millennium BCSculptures dating back to the second millennium BC - - Sculptures dating back to the first millennium BCResearcher made these historical divisions because of religious content in works of sculpture and similar with each other along thecivilized period and researcher selected his sample models intentionally according to the chronology of civilized specific roles within search.The sample included 22 model and studied as descriptive analytic study to research religious relationship by offering clues in mythology and belief, rituals, the researcher selected his sample according to the following principles ; - A comprehensive sample for specified period of time and represented the original community, original representation. - So 4 models were selected from the first half of the 4th millennium BC and 6 models of the third millennium BC and 9 models of the second millennium BC and 3 models of a first millennium BC because the faiths in ancient Iraq are an extension of each other and the objectives of this study do not endeavor to know the religious method or sculptural method but endeavoring to execute its objectives in identifying religious authority in Iraq's ancient sculpture and the impact of sculpture on the faith.So researcher don’t confined in selecting his sample with parity with the number of representing models for each period but sought to choose models that lead to achievement of research objectives.The researcher adopted a note based on extrapolation and inference as two approaches can be used in the analysis of selected models, benefited of intellectual and religious indicators within the context of theoretical framework.The research found a set of findings and conclusions contained in chapter IV and one of the most important results are ; - 6 old Iraqi sculpture fully related to religion as the most important tools of expression since the fourth millennium BC and became identified to the temple. - 5 Statues of ancient Iraqi Gods exceeded the range of thought is partial to what is total and contributed to the transformation of the individual and diagnosed case to a full spiritual representation. - 4 The old Iraqi sculptor photos Gods with human body and outfit the human mind interprets things as accepted by thesenses and Gods image became reflected image on the cult of the ancestors in the middle stone age and the Neolithic. - 3 Iraqi prominent sculptures embodied the religious legendary narrative thought is a mental image built with stone, backed clay, and metal. - 2 the old Iraqi Sculpture expressed in the first reference of religious belief which is based on the libido, the perception of religious thought imagined that the universe has become through a relationship with Goddess marriage.The most important conclusions ; - Old Iraqi sculpture organized under of the religious establishment and reflects the mystical spirit as one of religious ritual. - Old Iraqi mind create religious rituals as a unifying social phenomena. - The old Iraq mind characterized with the ability to justify everything related to religion and explained and there are always ideas justify accidents and disasters inflicted on human
