A PhD thesis at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Basrah discussed the structural functions of the Sumerian cylinder seals.
The thesis presented by the researcher Jaafar Lazem Jassem included the subject of an aesthetic study of the structural functions in Sumerian cylinder seals from a principle that recognizes the historical and social impact on the characteristics, causes and purposes of Sumerian art.
The thesis clarified the questions posed by the ancient march of art and its reality and its broad and saturated horizons, most notably the question about the possibility of subjecting art products to standards of evaluation, analysis, and interpretation, as well as to factors of time and place and the impact of the environment on the characteristics of art and its connection to society.
The thesis aims to reveal the functions of the structure in the Sumerian cylinder seals for considerations of inventory and deep detection of the absent structures and the variation of the characteristics of the cylinder seals.
The thesis concluded the use of abstract forms that reveal the inner and deep truth in the psyche of man and that fit his intellectual, esoteric and ideological themes.
