Kneeling Woman Grinding Flour
Ancient Near East and Egypt · ca. 2400 BCE
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Head Of Gudea
Ancient Near East and Egypt · ca. 2090 BCE
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Head Of Gudea
- Maker
- Ancient Near East and Egypt
- Date
- ca. 2090 BCE
- Place
- Ancient Near East and Egypt
- Material
- Diorite
- Dimensions
- 25.5 × 19.2 × 25.3 cm
- Current collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Diorite is difficult to carve and highly durable. This ruler of Lagash was made in a stone whose hard surface has preserved the brow and facial features for roughly four thousand years.
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- Maker
- Ancient Near East and Egypt
- Date
- ca. 2090 BCE
- Place
- Ancient Near East and Egypt
- Material
- Diorite
- Dimensions
- 25.5 × 19.2 × 25.3 cm
- Current collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Source
- The Met ↗
- Rights
- CC0 1.0
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