Register (sculpture) is a term in sculpture, or in ancient artwork, (or in languages), that refers to pictographic representation of a scene, and its separation from an adjoining scene, by putting the scene in regestered sections, by lines. A line (mathematics), in this case a straight line, thus separates the scenes into Block registers. Common examples are from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs as decoration scenes, on objects. Luwian language hieroglyphs were also represented in stone art, in registers. Another example, in Mesopotamian art, would be the stones called, Kudurru, or boundary stones, which often had registers of gods on the upper registers of the scenes.
Babylonian kudurru of the late Kassite period found near Baghdad by the French botanist André Michaux (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). Note the upper scene is composed of:—2 Register Sets.
See also
- Luwian language
- Kudurru
- Libyan Palette, (external link 2)
Former link 1, had 3 registers of Marching animals.
External links
- Louvre block statue of Wahibre-(Wah,ib,re) Louvre statue.
Enlarge in Window--(to see: Registers of hieroglyphs); accessed 1 June 2007. See also: Block statue (Egyptian) - Aramaic inscription-(Registers); Article. see: Aramaic language
