Tell Asmar (Mesilim period), Temple of Abu : Woman with goblet

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Strommenger, Eva
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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This woman also took part in a symposium. A small figure, probably a child, had been let into the base beside her. Only legs remain. -- See WA-33, veined gypseous stone, hair blackened with bitumen, eyes of shell and black limestone set in bitumen, h : 59 cm (Iraq Museum).

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

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1964

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