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  2. Art of Uruk - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian dignitary, Uruk, circa 3300-3000 BCE. National Museum of Iraq. [3] [4] Fragment of a Bull Figurine from Uruk, c. 3000 BCEVotive sculptures in the form of small animal figurines have been found at Uruk, using a style mixing naturalistic and abstract elements in order to capture the spiritual essence of the animal, rather than depicting an entirely anatomically accurate figure.

  3. Standard of Ur - Wikipedia

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    The artifact was found in one of the largest royal tombs in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, tomb PG 779, associated with Ur-Pabilsag, a king who died around 2550 BCE. [2] Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations in Mesopotamia in 1927–28 uncovered the artifact in the corner of a chamber, lying close to the shoulder of a man who may have held it on a pole. [3]

  4. Art of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    After the initial Pre-Pottery Neolithic phase from northwestern Mesopotamia to Jarmo (red dots, c. 7500 BC), 7th–5th millennium Mesopotamian art centered around the Hassuna culture in the north, the Halaf culture in the northwest, the Samarra culture in central Mesopotamia and the Ubaid culture in the southeast, which later expanded to ...

  5. Uruk period - Wikipedia

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    Lower Mesopotamia is the core of the Uruk period culture and the region seems to have been the cultural centre of the time because this is where the principal monuments are found and the most obvious traces of an urban society with state institutions developing in the second half of the 4th millennium BC, the first system of writing, and it is ...

  6. Utu-hengal - Wikipedia

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    Utu-hengal (Sumerian: 𒀭𒌓𒃶𒅅, D utu-ḫe₂-g̃al₂), also written Utu-heg̃al, Utu-heĝal, and sometimes transcribed as Utu-hegal, Utu-hejal, Utu-Khengal, was one of the first native kings of Sumer after two hundred years of Akkadian and Gutian rule, and was at the origin of the foundation of the Third Dynasty of Ur by his son-in-law Ur-Nammu.

  7. History of Sumer - Wikipedia

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    The pre-and protohistory of southern Mesopotamia is divided into the Ubaid (c. 6500–3800 BC), Uruk (c. 4000 to 3100 BC) and Jemdet Nasr (c. 3100 to 2900 BC) periods. There is scholarly disagreement as to when the Sumerian presence began in the region, although it is generally assumed that the Sumerian language was used in southern Mesopotamia by the late Uruk period.

  8. Lyres of Ur - Wikipedia

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    They excavated pieces of three lyres and one harp in Ur, located in what was Ancient Mesopotamia and is contemporary Iraq. [2] [3] They are over 4,500 years old, [4] from ancient Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic III Period (2550–2450 BC). [5] The decorations on the lyres are fine examples of the court art of Mesopotamia of the period. [6]

  9. Tell Asmar Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The Lives Of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple. Chicago: University of Chicago. Evans, Jean. 2007. The Square Temple at Tell Asmar and the Construction of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia, ca. 2900-2350 B.C.E. American Journal of Archaeology 4: 599-632. Frankfort, Henri. 1939.

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