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En-temena`s vaseFragment of the Stele of the VulturesIstanbul Archaeolgical Museum, Gudea StatueStatue I of Gudea, GirsuThe Perforated Relief, Ur-Nanshe (2550-2500 BC)Girsu, Gudea Statue

Location:

  • Iraq, Ḩusayn al Khanūrī
  • geo:31.558037,46.175667
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -2800~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42315

Annotations

The stone tablet from Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 221) was found (not in situ) in Tell  K -  a temple of Ningirsu according to A. Parrot. The tablet contains a Sumerian inscription dates back to the to the  Early Dynastic I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC).  The single large figure wearing a feathered head-band represent most likely the god Ningirsu. This land-sale document seems to be a  precursors to the later kudurru.

See:

  1. Andre Parrot, Tello : Telo, vingt campagnes de fouilles (1877-1933), In: Syria. Tome 26 fasc. 3-4, 1949. pp. 367-368.
  2. Ignace J. Gelb, Piotr Steinkeller and Robert M. Whiting eds., Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. 104. 1991, No. 18 Figure aux Plumes

Nearby

GIRSU

GIRSU Tello. Modern Tell Telloh

Vase Entemena, Girsu [Tell Telloh]

The En-etmena vase is currently in the Louvre Museum (France).

Girsu, Ningirsu Temple

Girsu (modern day Tello, Iraq) - Storm God temple.


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