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Tell Asmar (Mesilim period), Temple of Abu : Detail of man holding goblet

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dc.contributor.authorStrommenger, Eva
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialMesopotamia (Tell Asmar, Iraq)
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-06T04:52:47Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T04:52:47Z
dc.date.created1964
dc.identifierANUA 682-4118
dc.identifier.otherWA-34
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/201413
dc.descriptionShows by goblet in his hands that he took part in a religious banquet ceremony, such as has been established without doubt for this very temple : hundreds of similar goblets were lying in a side-chamber, where they had obviously been deposited after such ceremonies. Votive gifts, bronze figures, works in stone and excavation-finds repeatedly bear witness to this, obviously central, rite. The relief on the plinth is unfinished : an Im dugud hovers over two gazelles. -- (see WA-33), veined gypseous stone, hair and beard blackened with bitumen, eyes of shell and black limestone set in bitumen, h : 72 cm (Iraq Museum).
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediumslide
dc.format.mediumb&w
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.subjectMesopotamia : Eridu-'Ubaid period, Early Sumerian period, Fara-Ur I period, Imperial Akkadian period
dc.subjectsculpture
dc.subjectstone
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleTell Asmar (Mesilim period), Temple of Abu : Detail of man holding goblet
dc.typeImage
local.description.notesSource : Eva Strommenger, The Art of Mesopotamia, translated by Christina Haglund, London, Thames & Hudson, 1964, Illustrations 51, 53, 54
dc.date.updated2020-02-06T04:52:47Z
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2020
dc.rights.licenseThis 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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