#white temple

White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk (Modern Day Warka), Iraq. 3200 - 300 BCE

• demonstrated the essential role of the gods in Sumerian Culture
• religious monument often the centerpiece of the city
• temple complex is the city with in a city; had a staff of priests and scribes that worked official (religious) and commercial business
• considered the ‘white temple’ because it was white washed to represent purity
• built several centuries before the pyramids, so sumerians were building monumental structures before the egyptians
• not 'for everyone’; only housed priest and maybe some officials. represented everyone but designed only for a few. 
• dedicated to Annu, the sky god