. The Open court . - respects not yet It is hand-made, very thin, decor-ated with abstract designs of extraordinary force and distinction,in a style so thoroughly matured that it must have been the culmin-ation of many centuries of artistic experience (Page 5). The ibex, IThis pottery goes by the awkward name of Susa I, meaning that itwas found at the lowest level in the excavations conducted by the Frencharchaeological mission at 6 THE OPEN COURT the flamingo, the running hound have been, by the aesthetic per-ception of these early Iranian potters, transmuted so that they are
. The Open court . - respects not yet It is hand-made, very thin, decor-ated with abstract designs of extraordinary force and distinction,in a style so thoroughly matured that it must have been the culmin-ation of many centuries of artistic experience (Page 5). The ibex, IThis pottery goes by the awkward name of Susa I, meaning that itwas found at the lowest level in the excavations conducted by the Frencharchaeological mission at 6 THE OPEN COURT the flamingo, the running hound have been, by the aesthetic per-ception of these early Iranian potters, transmuted so that they areno longer naturalistic objects but are conventionalized and inter-preted, the essence of their character concentrated in a single ab-stract form, thus attaining to a new quality of beauty in contour,in movement, and in the mind-imposed harmony of their relations. This Elamitic civilization, perhaps engendered as early as , centered in the city of Susa, but this was not necessarily itsfirst abode, and it was widely extended over Asiatic soil, so thatpottery of this general character and probably in some way con-nected with it has been found in Afghanistan, in Eastern Mongolia,and as far west as the Nile. In every case, however, saving the ex-tensions of the Iranian plateau and its cultural relations into theupper Mesopotamian valley, the quality, the variety, and the artis-tic and technical competence of this type of pottery rapidly
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