The 'Ur-Nammu' Stela Nilanjana Gupta

The 'Ur-Nammu' Stela Nilanjana GuptaUr Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 B. C. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur Nammu. Because such works have rarely survived, the stela became one of the most famous examples of Near Eastern art, a status it retains today. The stela had been ten feet high with registers in relief of scenes of

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