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Lagash (Fara-Ur I period) : Plaque of Dudu, c. 2900-2460 BC (Louvre)

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Parrot, Andre
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Esoteric in contrast to the narrative style shown on previous slide, is the style of the bituminous plaque of Dudu, high priest of Lagash, which is in a symbolic figurative language, a kind of rebus or picture puzzle, whose purport is not obvious to us. We have successively the lion-headed eagle between 2 lions, which are biting its wings
the priest Dudu, bare-chested, wearing the kaunakes skirt
a heifer lying down, and a thick tress with 4 convolutions.

Keywords

Mesopotamia : Eridu-'Ubaid period, Early Sumerian period, Fara-Ur I period, Imperial Akkadian period, sculpture, stone, book scan

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/201426

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Basham Photographs

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Archives Series

Date created

1960

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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