Jean-Claude Golvin

Plate: monuments in Iraq and Syria

Type

Drawing

Equipment used

Black ink, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor

Dimensions

25 × 32 cm (overall)

Period

antiquity

Geographical area

Location or theme

Evocation

Miscellaneous

Presentation :

Plate depicting monuments from Iraq and Syria. The plate is in landscape format and has no frame. Inscriptions are visible around the drawings.
The plate shows four monuments from Iraq and Syria, from top to bottom:
– the Ur Nammu ziggurat in Ur
– the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
– the ziggurat at Nippur
– the Palace of Mari.

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