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Localisation:

  • Irak, Āl Yūsif
  • geo:31.667549,45.887604
  • Précision ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2900~ / -2700~

Classification:

  • Autel ou sculpture
  • Visible

Identificateurs:

  • vici:place=29263

Annotations

Il n'y a pas une annotation en français. Présenté est une annotation en Anglais.

Gypsum stele of Ushumgal a priest of the god Shara,  probably from Umma, dates back to Early Dynastic I (2900-2700 BC), 22.4 cm of hight. The inscription informs us abut the transaction involving three fields, three houses, and some livestock.

Sources:

  1. André Parrot, “Kudurru Archaïque Provenant de Senkereh.” Archiv Für Orientforschung, vol. 12, 1937, pp. 319–24.
  2. Joan Aruz, Ronald Wallenfels, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, p. 53
  3. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329079

Gypsum stele of Ushumgal a priest of the god Shara,  probably from Umma, dates back to Early Dynastic I (2900-2700 BC), 22.4 cm of hight. The inscription informs us abut the transaction involving three fields, three houses, and some livestock.

Sources:

  1. André Parrot, “Kudurru Archaïque Provenant de Senkereh.” Archiv Für Orientforschung, vol. 12, 1937, pp. 319–24.
  2. Joan Aruz, Ronald Wallenfels, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, p. 53
  3. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329079

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