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Title: Furniture element: ram with bitumen-lined socket
Period: Early Dynastic IIIa
Date: ca. 2600–2500 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia, Nippur
Culture: Sumerian
Medium: Gypsum alabaster, bitumen
Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.5 x 3.78 in. (5.59 x 3.81 x 9.6 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1962
Object Number: 62.70.4
“The Art of Sumer and Akkad: Mesopotamia and Iran in the Third Millennium B.C.” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 3, 1973–May 27, 1973.
“The Beauty of the Beasts.” Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, November 15, 1992–May 30, 1993.
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