In ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the use of hierarchical scale was a convention, which indicated the order of importance.
In sculptures and paintings a unique technique had been used by Egyptians and Mesopotamians, which is termed as, Hierarchical scale or proportion.
The Hierarchical proportion or scale represents, the importance of an painting or an sculpture, in this technique, the artists usually uses some kind of unusual scales to depict, how much important the figure is.
As for example, it is evidently seen in the Egyptian paintings that, to depict the people of higher status the figure made is used to be much bigger in size than the figures of the people having lower status.
The Warka Vase is such another example and also, one of the oldest works of art to in which the convention of hierarchy of scale is present evidently.
The hierarchy scale is present in the increasing sizes of the registers sculpted on the vase.
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