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more images:

• Warka Vase as recovered (6/12/03)

• broken-off foot of vase, tossed over

• close-up: top register

• close-up: lower registers

side view

bibliography and image source: Strommenger, Eva: Fünf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien. München: Hirmer Verlag, fig. 19.

• museum number: IM19606

• excavation number: W14873

• provenience: Uruk

• dimension(s) (in cm):
height: ca. 105; upper diam.: 36

• material: stone (alabaster)

• date: (ca. 3000 BC)

• description:
vase, relief decoration in four registers, showing (bottom to top) rows of plants, sheep (make and female), nude males carrying baskets or jars, and a cultic scene, in which the ruler of city of Uruk delivers provisions to the temple of the goddess Inanna, represented here by two reed bundle standarts--symbols of the goddess--and a woman, probably her priestess ); rim broken; repair piece inserted in antiquity (holes drilled for repair)

• status: stolen in April 2003, returned to museum in June 2003.

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