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Limestone head of a statue of a Sumerian male; the rest of the body is lost. The eye sockets are empty but might well have been filled in with a white shell or a precious stone set in bitumen. Front view. From the Single-Shrine at the Temple of Abu, Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Dyala Governorate, Iraq; excavated by the Oriental Institute (Chicago), 1933/1934 CE. Early Dynastic III, c. 2400 BCE. (The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan).
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