"Man carrying a box, possibly for offerings" (c. 2,900–2,600 BCE), Sumerian, copper alloy (image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The 14-inch-high statue shows a man carrying a box on his head, a ...
The museum said its enhanced effort to study the provenance of items in its collection had turned up evidence that the statue of a Sumerian man was the property of Iraq. By Graham Bowley The ...
"This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple ...
An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...
Leonard Woolley waxing a skeleton for removal, in Ur (1929-1930) (courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) After excavation, ancient artifacts embark on an ...
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