Clothes, Costumes and Adornment in The Ancient Assyrian Era
Abstract
A thorough study of clothes, costumes and their supplements gives the researcher and observer a clear idea of the nature of the daily life of a person in every era, as the clothes of individuals clarify their social classes, positions and the types of their specialties, then what is added to the special clothes, including the clothes for religious ceremonies and clothes for war and hunting. The clothes reflected some intellectual concepts, including magical concepts, and this included the nature of the use of colors and their concepts and the quality of the raw materials used in the manufacture of clothes and their relationships, such as the linen plant and the stages of its production, starting from its cultivation to the stage of weaving cloth and wearing it as clothes. Accordingly, the costumes, their manufacture, and the supplements to the external appearance as a whole, are considered a part and phenomenon of civilization, and it is also an economic, social and psychological phenomenon. The external appearances of individuals, whether in ancient civilizations, especially the civilization of Iraq, were considered a symbol for them and an image to reflect the personality and position and sometimes even represent the person of its owner. It is also part of the structural or architectural entity of the form and thus determines the way it is displayed in sculptures or in drawings a special style that is not separated from the elements and vocabulary of other plastic styles.
Our research came to shed light on the adornments, clothes and costumes that were in ancient Iraq with an emphasis on the Assyrian era because of its aesthetic advantage, as well as because of its civilizational and cultural distinction in the ancient history of Iraq. Our research dealt with an introduction to Assyria, its geography, the Assyrians, their existence, their origins, and their role in building the civilization of Mesopotamia, then the research turned to the costumes of the Assyrian citizen, their kings, the clergy, war costumes, head and footwear, as well as we dealt with ornaments, their forms and their use by the ancient Assyrians, which proved beyond doubt about the depth of civilization It is a unique and distinct aesthetic of what the ancient citizen of Iraq was represented by the Assyrians, which was shown by the technical techniques used, their accuracy and consistency.
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