concept:era ancient

Head of Gudea

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Ancient Mesopotamian sculpture seed used to expand the graph beyond Egyptian ancient coverage and into West Asian ruler-depiction paths.

Scholarly Significance

Broaden the graph into ancient Mesopotamian object traditions and ruler-depiction paths.

Notes

·The Met dates this Neo-Sumerian diorite sculpture to ca. 2090 BCE and places it in Mesopotamia, probably from Girsu (modern Tello).
·This seed broadens the graph into ancient West Asian object traditions without requiring a broader archaeological event schema in the same cycle.