Argilla come materiale cotto e crudo nel mondo mesopotamico

This is an interdisciplinary publication on the “Clay as Matter Creation” that uses a well known common definition in the Mesopotamian studies. A number of Scholars with diverse points of view (Archaeological, Historical, Anthropological, Ethnological, Psychological and Cognitive) focus on clay as principal subject. The results outline the practice of clay manipulation as an inner dimension of an ideographic and composite habitus that can be first recognized in the Mesopotamian image’s representation. It is suggested that the production of so-called ‘material culture’ is itself a conscious human imitation of sacred and royal images of power, a kind of mimesis that also preserves cognitive and aesthetic traces of the authority propaganda as interpreted by the people's ‘common sense’.