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Art for Resilience: Sumerian Standing Female Worshipper and More

December 21, 2020

By Kim Benzel and The Digital Editors

Met staff reflect on artworks that inspire resilience, from a Sumerian limestone statue to a contemporary collage by Wangechi Mutu.
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"Domesticated Partners: A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel"

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 55 include an essay on Buddhist imagery in a medieval Chinese silk painted banner, a discussion of a rare 19th-century keyed guitar, and a contextualization of Ed Ruscha’s books of photographs of L.A. streets and gas stations of the 1960s and ’70s.
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Mesopotamian Creation Myths

April 1, 2009

By Ira Spar

In Mesopotamia, the surviving evidence from the third millennium to the end of the first millennium B.C. indicates that although many of the gods were associated with natural forces, no single myth addressed issues of initial creation.
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West Asia: Ancient Legends, Modern Idioms

October 1, 2004

By Salwa Mikdadi

After years of conflict and several wars, the landscape itself became a symbol for self-determination, the redefinition of identity, and resistance to occupation.
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Essay

Flood Stories

April 1, 2009

By Ira Spar

Mesopotamian versions of the flood story may have had their beginnings in the annual spring flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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Essay

Gilgamesh

April 1, 2009

By Ira Spar

No contemporary information is known about Gilgamesh, who, if he was in fact an historical person, would have lived around 2700 B.C.
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Essay

Mesopotamian Deities

April 1, 2009

By Ira Spar

Feared and admired rather than loved, the great gods were revered and praised as masters.
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Essay

The Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian Periods (2004–1595 B.C.)

February 1, 2017

By Elizabeth Knott

People of the ancient Near East inhabited a world that was saturated with supernatural powers, and the arts of the Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian periods show the range of deities available to the individual as sources of protection and well-being.
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Ancient Near East

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Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C.

October 1, 2004

By Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

The art of the third millennium B.C. reflects not only the extraordinary developments in the cities of the Near Eastern heartland but also their interaction with contemporary civilizations to the east and west.
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Standing male worshiper

Date: ca. 2900–2600 BCE
Accession Number: 40.156

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Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Date: ca. 3100–2900 BCE
Accession Number: 1988.433.1

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Art

Head, probably from a composite statuette

Date: ca. 532 B.C.–339 A.D.
Accession Number: 2021.41.48

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Art

Stele of Ushumgal and Shara-igizi-Abzu

Date: 2900–2700 BCE
Accession Number: 58.29

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Art

Standing female worshiper

Date: ca. 2600–2500 BCE
Accession Number: 62.70.2

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Art

Eye inlay for a statue

Date: ca. 2600–2500 BCE
Accession Number: 62.70.84

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Art

Headdress

Date: ca. 2600–2500 BCE
Accession Number: 33.35.3

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Art

Foundation cone with cuneiform inscription of Enmetena of Lagash

Date: ca. 2500–2350 BCE
Accession Number: 1999.190.1

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Art

Base and feet of a worshipper

Date: ca. 2500–2350 BCE
Accession Number: 59.41.12

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Art

Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”

Date: ca. 2090 BCE
Accession Number: 59.2