Question

Describe what historians know about the two sculptures pictured above.

Answer 1

Picture 1: This is a life-sized head of a goddess. It is the first known mask created in the region. It is made entirely out of marble. Historians believe that the mask originally held paint, had a golden wig atop its head, and was inlaid with jewels in its eyes and across its eye brows. Picture 2: This is the first known hallow cast bronze sculpture. The beard and hair indicate royalty and importance. This was the ideal male appearance of this time period, for this region.

Answer 2

Both were produced in Mesopotamia. The left one comes from Sumer, and the right one comes from Akkad.

Step-by-step explanation:

The left mask is one of the first representations of the human face. The Mask of Warka was created probably in the year of 3100 BC in the city of Uruk, Mesopotamia. The right mask is the representation of the Sargon, king of Akkad. Akkadian Empire was the first empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Acadia and its surrounding region, which the Bible also called "Acadia". The empire united the Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one government.