Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Mask of Warka in the National Museum of Iraq today. The Mask of Warka (named after the modern village of Warka located close to the ancient city of Uruk), also known as the Lady of Uruk, dating from 3100 BC, is one of the earliest known representations of the human face.
The Mask of Warka, also known as the 'Lady of Uruk' and the 'Sumerian Mona Lisa', dating from 3100 BC, is one of the earliest representations of the human face. The carved marble female face is probably a depiction of Inanna.
Mask of Warka, or Head of Inanna, found at Uruk, c. 3100 BCE. The art of Uruk encompasses the sculptures, seals, pottery, architecture, and other arts produced in Uruk, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia that thrived during the Uruk period around 4200-3000 BCE.
English: The Mask of Warka at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. From Warka (ancient Uruk), southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. From Warka (ancient Uruk), southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Jemdet Nasr period, 3000-2900 BCE.
Forty pieces were stolen from these galleries, mostly the more valuable ones. Of these only 13 had been recovered as of January 2005, including the three most valuable: the Sacred Vase of Warka (though broken in fourteen pieces, which was the original state it was found in when first excavated), the Mask of Warka, and the Bassetki Statue. [6]
The Warka Vase or Uruk vase is a slim carved alabaster vessel found in a temple complex in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk, located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq. Like the Uruk Trough , Mask of Warka , and the Narmer Palette from Egypt , it is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture ...
English: The Mask of Warka at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. From Warka (ancient Uruk), southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. From Warka (ancient Uruk), southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Jemdet Nasr period, 3000-2900 BCE.
Significant works from the southern cities in Sumer proper are the Warka Vase and Uruk Trough, with complex multi-figured scenes of humans and animals, and the Mask of Warka. This is a more realistic head than the Tell Brak examples, like them made to top a wooden body; what survives of this is only the basic framework, to which coloured inlays ...