Sumerian ‘Mask Of Warka’ From Uruk: Sculptured Face May Depict Goddess Inanna

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "At Warka, the biblical Erech, this conception
found a grandiose expression. A temple of the Protoliterate Period, preserved by an extraordinary
chance, and probably dedicated to the god Anu, repeats in its plan the main features of the shrine at Eridu. Still, the process of clarification has proceeded further. The corner bastions are gone, and the plan has become a simple oblong decorated with a uniform system of buttresses and recesses. The principal change, however, appears in the elevation."

"The platform found at Eridu is here replaced by an artificial mountain, irregular in outline, and rising forty feet above the featureless plain, a landmark dominating the countryside for miles around. Its corners were orientated to the points of the compass..." ¹

The famed “Mask of Warka,” also known as the "Lady of Uruk" (due to its resemblance to the Sumerian goddess Inanna), is dated to about 3100 BC. It is a limestone sculpture discovered by the German archaeologists excavating in southern Iraq in 1939.

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