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Related content for the gallery "Room 56: Mesopotamia 6000-1500 BC"
Related Childrens tour
Games
Related galleries
Room 6: Assyrian sculpture
Room 7-8: Assyria: Nimrud
Room 9: Assyria: Nineveh
Room 10a: Assyria: Lion hunts
Room 10b: Assyria: Siege of Lachish
Room 10c: Assyria: Khorsabad
Room 55: Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC
Room 89: Assyrian Life
Related highlight objects
'Adam and Eve' cylinder seal
Alabaster 'Eye Idols'
Altar frieze
Aragonite (shell) cylinder seal with a contest scene
Beads and pendants
Bitumen boat model
Bronze figure
Calcite (limestone) cylinder seal
Child's diadem
Circular brick with an inscription of Gudea
Clay foundation peg
Clay model of a sheep's liver
Copper axe
Copper figure holding basket
Copper figure of a bull
Copper foundation peg
Copper frieze
Copper frieze from temple
Copper statue
Copper statue of Lamma
Copper vessel with silver wire
Crushed skull and head-dress
Crushed skull of a soldier with a copper helmet
Cuneiform tablet inscribed with omens
Cuneiform tablet recording barley rations
Cuneiform tablet with schoolwork
Cuneiform tablet with the Atrahasis Epic
Cylinder seal of Pu-abi
Dolomite (magnesian limestone) cylinder seal
Electrum vessel
Fired steatite cylinder seal
Foundation figure of Ur-Nammu
Fragment of a stone plaque depicting Enannatum
Fragment of a stone stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum
Fragments of a carved stone box
Gold and lapis lazuli beads
Gold bowl
Gold cup
Gold pin with a carnelian head
Gold strainer for beer or wine
Granite weight in the form of a duck
Green sparry calcite seal
Greenstone seal
Greenstone seal of Adda
Greenstone seal of Hashhamer
Grey and white marble jar
Gypsum head of a man
Gypsum statue of a man
Gypsum statue of a woman
Hematite cylinder seal
Hematite cylinder seal of Habde-Adad
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal of Sin-ishmeanni
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal-1
Limestone cup
Limestone figure of a bull
Limestone plaque
Limestone statue from the shrine of Hendursag
Limestone statue of a woman
Lion's head
Mosaic column
Obsidian bowl
Ostrich egg
Ostrich egg jar
Painted terracotta figurine of a woman
Pottery jar
Pottery 'Khabur Ware' jar
Queen's Lyre
Record of food supplies
Rein ring of gold and silver
'Scarlet Ware' jar
Sceptre
Serpentinite cylinder seal
Set of hematite weights
Shell plaque
Shell plaque-1
Silver fluted tumbler
Silver jar
Silver 'lamp'
Silver 'lamp'
Silver lyre
Steatite jar
Stone basin
Stone bowl
Stone cult vessel
Stone head of a woman
Stone jar and lid
Stone lamp in the shape of a shell
Stone mace head
Stone mace head
Stone mace head
Stone statue of a man
Stone statue of a woman
Stone statue of Kurlil
Stone vase
Stone vessel
Stone vessel
Tablet recording the allocation of beer
Terracotta figure of a woman suckling a child
Terracotta head of a ewe
Terracotta mould of a man on horseback
Terracotta plaque
Terracotta plaque showing a bull-man holding a post
Terracotta statue of a woman
Terracotta vase
The Blau monuments
The 'Queen of the Night' Relief
The 'Ram in a Thicket'
The Royal Game of Ur
The Standard of Ur
White and cream calcite (marble) cylinder seal
White calcite (marble) cylinder seal
White calcite (marble) cylinder seal with a combat scene
Related themes
Writing
Related tours
Agatha Christie and archaeology
Related world cultures
Amorites
Assyrians
Babylonians
Sumerians
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