This is also called “The Battle Standard of Ur” When I first looked at this picture. I thought it was a bunch of dolls on a shelf but if you look closer it is a painting on a box. It’s very Unique with the sides of it brown with more people on it. I assume the people are Sumerians. The paintings are from what is usually called the "war" panel. The "peace" panel shows the other side of Sumerian life - a banquet with a musician playing the a lyre type instrument. No one knows the painting’s full purpose

When I first say this picture. I found it very creative and pretty. The blue beard was a little funny. I thought of it as a Harp, which is an instrument. It is fashioned of gold leaf over a wooden core. The hair, beard, and details are of lapis lazuli. The sound box also features bearded but here human-headed bulls in the uppermost of its four inlaid panels.

When I first looked at this picture. It seemed as if Gudea was praying. His hands together an eyes closed. I finally changed my mind. I think he might be soundly in sleep. I was totally wrong. It is actually He is posing of a ruler before his subjects, his hands folded in a traditional gesture of greeting and prayer. This sculpture belongs to a series of diorite statues commissioned by Gudea, who devoted his energies to rebuilding the great temples of Lagash and installing statues of himself in them.

To me this painting or carving was of a Family of Sumerians. the platform variety and that built at ground level - persisted throughout the early dynasties of Sumerian history (c. 2900-c. 2400 BC). It is known that two of the platform temples originally stood within walled enclosures, oval in shape and containing, in addition to the temple, accommodation for priests. Votive Statues, from the Temple of Abu, Tell Asmarc.2500 BC, limestone, shell, and gypsum

This is a face of a woman. Her name is Inanna. nanna can be considered the most prominent female deity in ancient Mesopotamia. As early as the Uruk period (ca. 4000–3100 BC), Inanna was associated with the city of Uruk. The famous Uruk Vase (found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period) depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels, and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler.

This is a very beautiful vase. If you would put flowers in it. It would look Gorgeous. The carving were hand carved which says that Sumerians were very skillful. The Warka Vase is a carved alabaster stone vessel found in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk , located in the modern Al MuthannaGovernorate, in southern Iraq.

I love this painting/carving. Its unique an I can tell was well thought. It shows a Ram climbing in a golden tree. The Ram in a Thicket is one of a pair of figures excavated in Ur, in southern Iraq, and which date from about 2600-2400 BC

Temples were originally built on platforms. During the third millennium B.C., these were made higher and bigger. Eventually it was decided to build even higher temples on platforms which were stepped. In the picture. You called that a Ziggurat. It’s like a pyramid but Sumerian style. No one knows for certain why ziggurats were built or how they were used. They are part of temple complexes, so they were probably connected with religion.

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