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bibliography and image source: Strommenger, Eva: Fünf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien. München: Hirmer Verlag, fig. 18.

• museum number: IM23477

• excavation number: W13913

• provenience: Uruk

• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: ca. 100

• material: stone (basalt)

• date: (ca. 3000 BC)

• description:
stela fragment; relief carving shows two men wearing skirt and head band and four animals (lions); both men are killing lions, one using a spear, the other bow and arrow

• status: seen in the Iraq Museum by McGuire Gibson (May 16, 2003)

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