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Location:

  • Iraq, Tall Abū Şarīḩah
  • geo:33.487331,44.726768
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2900~ / -2600~

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=27911

Annotations

The standing male worshipper made of gypsum alabaster, shell, black limestoneand bitumen was offerd as a voto in the Abu Temple in Early Dynastic I-II period i.e. 2900-2600 BC.

See:

  1. Henry Frankfort: Sculpture of the third millennium B.C. Tell Asmar and Khafajah, University of Chicago Press, 1939.

Nearby

Eshnunna (Tell Asmar), Abu Temple

Abu Temple at Tell Asmar (Eshnunna)

Eshnunna, Gimilsin Temple

Eshnunna/Tell Asmar, Gimilsin Temple


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