MLC 2628
Description
1 sculpture
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan acquired this sculpture before 1908, probably from the Parisian dealer in Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities, Elias Gejou.
Notes
Height includes plinth, width measured at elbows.
Probably the product of a royal workshop.
The temple of the god Enlil, at Nippur, where this figurine was found in 1905, is one of several erected or reconstructed by King Ur-Nammu, the first prince of the dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia for 108 years.
Summary
Man (probably intended to represent Ur-Nammu) nude from the waist upwards, with head and face shaved and with both arms raised to steady a basket of building materials carried on the head.
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