Unstudied human and animal pottery dolls from the city of Bekasi (Tell Abu-Antik) (Analytical and technical study)
Abstract
Animal and human puppets are among the most important features that characterized the civilization of Mesopotamia, and they reflect the progress of the Mesopotamian artist in the field of making these puppets in the technical and artistic field, and their impact on human life at the intellectual, religious and social level. By looking at the records of the five excavation seasons of Tell Abu Antak, a group of unstudied animal and human dolls was observed that deserves to become a research in which the shapes are analyzed artistically and studied in a scientific way that sheds light on the methods of making these dolls and their uses and describing them in an accurate scientific way and studying the technical characteristics that The art in the ancient Babylonian era was distinguished from the previous and subsequent eras and the extent of the influence of the era in those periods.By looking at the records of the five excavation seasons of Tell Abu Antak, a group of unstudied animal and human dolls was observed that deserves to become a research in which the shapes are analyzed artistically and studied in a scientific way that sheds light on the methods of making these dolls and their uses and describing them in an accurate scientific way and studying the technical characteristics that The art in the ancient Babylonian era was distinguished from the previous and subsequent eras and the extent of the influence of the era in those periods.