front view
- bibliography and image source:
Strommenger, Eva: Fünf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien.
München: Hirmer Verlag, fig. 51a.
- copyright for image:
Hirmer Verlag
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• museum number: IM19752
• excavation number: As. 33:446
• provenience: Tell Asmar
• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: 72
• material: stone (veined gypsum); hair and beard colored with bitumen
• date: (ca. 2600 BC)
• description:
statue; male, bearded, long hair, bare-chested, wearing flounced skirt; hands folded, holding vessel; eyes inlaid (shell, black limestone), hair and beard painted with bitumen; standing on base with relief decorationon front of base antithetical group
of two reclining gazelles with plants across background; between them a bird with spread wings.
• status: unknown
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