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Sumerians are the earliest known civilization and they lived in southern Mesopotamia.The problem with Sumerian clothing is that there's very little information available and even then, most of it is about men. It seems that women covered themselves in sheepskins (4000-2500 BC) or (from 2500 BC) woolen fabrics, that were decorated with tufts (look: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunakes ). They either wore their hair long, in a braid wrapped around the head, or they wore wigs. They also wore elaborate headdresses and lots of jewellery.
The make up is my own artistic license
Sources:
headdress: cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/…
dress: www.bible-history.com/ibh/imag…
kaukanes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunakes )
make-up: www.ayagallery.co.uk/mediac/40…
information: history-world.org/sumeria,%20d…
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I really like your drawing!
One of the interesting things about Sumer is sacred prostitution. One of the earliest forms of prostitution came out of Sumer. Sacred prostitution involved temple priestesses of Inanna/Ishtar having ritual sex with male visitors to the temple, again releasing the divine fertile energy. The first hookers! Everyone loves sluts, especially sluts for goddesses!
I actually did a comic about this exact thing from the Greek historian Herodotus perspective.
According to Herodotus, the rites performed at these temples included sexual intercourse, or what scholars later called sacred sexual rites:
The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger at least once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, "I invite you in the name of Mylitta". It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred…
www.historyonthenet.com/sacred…
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Thanks for this, I've been struggling to find anything about Sumer and the city of Uruk!
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The necklace is wrong - that's not hers! it's one of her court girls from the front room - not hers - her necklace looks like this: withart.visitphilly.com/images… ^_^
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Finally I have a picture of the Queen Puabi, thanks!)
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very nice. there's also a layered dress that the women wore made of wool.
gingeropal.deviantart.com/art/…
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One of the better renditions of a particular period that I have seen. Very nice.
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This is great, it is made even better because what we have on the sumerian is in Bas relief mostly. It is interesting to see it face on. I like her face too. But shouldn't she have heavier makeup? I relly don't know, good job!
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This looks really cool. I vaguely remember learning about Sumerians in 6th grade. Cool outfit!
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