Female head

1. Figure 2-4 Female head (Inanna?), from Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq, ca. 3200–3000 BCE. Marble, 8” high. Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

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Figure 2-5 Presentation of offerings to Inanna
(Warka Vase), from Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq,
ca. 3200–3000 BCE. Alabaster, 3’ 1/4” high. Iraq
Museum, Baghdad.
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3. Figure 2-8 War side of the Standard of Ur, from Tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq, ca. 2600 BCE. Wood

inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone, 8” x 1’ 7”. British Museum, London.
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4. Figure 2-10 Sound box of the bull-headed harp from tomb 789 (“King’s Grave”), Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq,

ca. 2600–2400 BCE. Wood, lapis
lazuli, and shell, 1’ 7” high. University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, Philadelphia.
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5. Figure 2-13 Victory stele of Naram-Sin, from Susa, Iran, 2254–2218 BCE. Pink sandstone, 6’ 7” high. Louvre, Paris.

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6. Figure 2-12 Head of an Akkadian ruler, from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik), Iraq, ca. 2250–2200 BCE. Copper, 1’ 2 3/8” high.

National
Museum of Iraq, Baghdad.
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7. Figure 2-14 Ziggurat (northeastern facade with restored stairs), Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq, ca. 2100 BCE.

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8. Figure 2-18 Stele with laws of Hammurabi, set up at Babylon, Iraq, found at Susa, Iran, ca. 1780 BCE. Basalt, 7’ 4” high. Musée

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Louvre, Paris.
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9. Figure 2-20 Lamassu (man-headed winged bull), from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, ca.

721–705 BCE. Limestone, 13’ 10” high.
Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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10. Figure 2-24 Ishtar Gate (restored), Babylon, Iraq, ca. 575 BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin.

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