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The remnants of a very large diorite statue in the British Museum may be a representation of Gudea, but this cannot be determined with certainty. What remains of the statue is 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high (and weighs over 1,250 kg (2,760 lb)), meaning that if it were fully reconstructed the statue would be well over 3 m (9.8 ft) high and the largest ...
Gudea (Sumerian: 𒅗𒌤𒀀, Gu 3-de 2-a) was a Sumerian ruler of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia, who ruled c. 2080 –2060 BC (short chronology) or 2144–2124 BC (middle chronology).
The Gudea cylinders are a pair of terracotta cylinders dating to c. 2125 BC, on which is written in cuneiform a Sumerian myth called the Building of Ningirsu's temple. [1] The cylinders were made by Gudea , the ruler of Lagash , and were found in 1877 during excavations at Telloh (ancient Girsu ), Iraq and are now displayed in the Louvre in ...
After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, a local dynasty emerged in Lagash. Gudea, ruler of Lagash (reign ca. 2144 to 2124 BC), was a great patron of new temples early in the period, and an unprecedented 26 statues of Gudea, mostly rather small, have survived from temples, beautifully executed, mostly in "costly and very hard diorite" stone ...
Portrait sculpture began in Egypt, where the Narmer Palette shows a ruler of the 32nd century BCE, and Mesopotamia, where we have 27 surviving statues of Gudea, who ruled Lagash c. 2144–2124 BCE. In ancient Greece and Rome, the erection of a portrait statue in a public place was almost the highest mark of honour, and the ambition of the elite ...
2124 BC: Gudea, ruler of Lagash, dies. c. 2120 BC: Votive statue of Gudea from Lagash is made. [4] 2119 BC–2113 BC (middle chronology): Utu-hengal, first king of the third dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire. 2116 BC–2110 BC: Uruk–Gutian war. 2112 BC–2095 BC: Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu.
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Ur-Ningirsu (Sumerian: 𒌨𒀭𒎏𒄈𒋢, Ur-D-nin-gir-su) [1] also Ur-Ningirsu II in contrast with the earlier Ur-Ningirsu I, was a Sumerian ruler of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia who ruled c. 2110 BC. He was the son of the previous ruler of Lagash named Gudea. [2] [3]
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