Jouer dans l'Antiquité

by Musée d'archéologie méditerranéenne, Centre de la Vieille Charité

1990 · FeniXX

Depuis l'ouvrage de Becq de Fouquières, en 1869, sur les jeux des Anciens, Grecs et Romains, rien n'avait été consacré à ce sujet. L'exposition reprend l'idée en l'élargissant aux civilisations égyptienne et proche-orientales. Le ludique, où se mêlent croyances et rites funéraires, est vu sous trois thèmes : les jeux de l'enfance, les jeux de hasard, d'adresse et les jeux de table. « Copyright Electre »

The Royal City of Susa

by Musée du Louvre

1992 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

A rich production followed of objects for daily use, ritual, and luxury living, finely carved in various materials or fashioned of clay. Monumental sculpture was made in stone or bronze, and dramatic friezes were composed of brilliantly glazed bricks. Among the discoveries are tiny, intricately carved cylinder seals and splendid jewelry. Clay balls marked with symbols offer fascinating testimony to the very beginnings of writing; clay tablets from later periods bearing inscriptions in cuneiform record political history, literature, business transactions, and mathematical calculations. A very important group of finds from Susa is made up of objects brought back as booty from conquests in Mesopotamia. These works, many of them the royal monuments of Akkadian and Babylonian monarchs - for instance, the great stele of Naram-Sin - are among the best known of all objects from the ancient Near East.