This door jamb came from Neo-Hittite city of Carchemish. It has different shapes all over the top half of it while the bottom half is plain. The interesting thing about it is that there is no noticeable repetition. There are five different levels of decoration on it. There are tools, birds, crops, and many other symbals that appear on this door. The decorators of this piece must have thought these items were special and had a certain importance. In the past, the sculptors would paint of things they either saw or were very meaningful to them. The texture is very rough and the stone appears to be chiselled. The lines and shapes within this structure are very parallel. There is a lot of space between the different objects that makes the object appear very open and almost larger. This door-jamb seems to have a lot of balance and is relatively proportionate. The different levels could almost be seen as line breaks and the objects could be relevant to a visual/objective language.
The Hittite's carved different things in to structures. I believe that the things they would sculpt were the things the felt were important to their culture. Some of the objects on this door-jamb are just every day things like tools and animals. The simple things that the Hittite show great appreciation for are the things that most people don't truly look at today. We have grown so used to seeing these things that we forget the importance of them and how to appreciate them.
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