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figurine
Object Type
figurine
Museum number
113896
Description
Copper alloy foundation figure carrying a basket on its head, with 9 + 3 lines of inscription. Inscription of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, commemorating his building of Inanna's temple Eanna in Uruk.
Authority
Ruler:
Ur-Nammu
Cultures/periods
Third Dynasty of Ur
Production date
2112BC-2095BC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Temple of Inanna (Warka)
Materials
copper alloy
Dimensions
Height:
27.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities.
(p.85)
van Buren E D 1931a / Foundation figurines and offerings
(pl.10, fig.18)
Zervos C 1935a / L'art de la Mesopotamie
(p.225)
Strommenger E & Hirmer M 1962a / Funf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien
(pl.46)
Ellis R S 1968a / Foundation deposits in Ancient Mesopotamia
(p.65, n.144)
Spycket A 1981a / La statuaire du Proche-Orient Ancien
(p.205)
Frayne, RIME 3/2 / Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC)
(RIM.E.3/2.1.1.34.6a)
Saggs 1995a / Babylonians
(p.86, fig.86)
Location
On display
(G35/dc14)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2000, Barcelona, 'Foundation of the City' 1999 2 Feb-18 Jul, Germany, Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Von Babylon Bis Jerusalem: Die Welt der altorientalischen Konigsstadte
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Inanna
Named in inscription:
Ur-Nammu
Associated places
Named in inscription:
Temple of Inanna
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
I Élias Géjou
Acquisition date
1919
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
113896
Registration number
1919,0712.645
Conservation
Treatment
: 07 Dec 1993
Treatment
: 01 Aug 1990