Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel, 3100–2900 B.C.; Proto-Elamite period

Clay tablet from Ur.

Tower of Babel by Peter Breugel

• Remains of the white temple on its ziggurat, Uruk, Iraq, c.3500-3000 BC.

Ziggurat of King Urnammu, Ur 2100 BC

Arial view of Ziggurat of King Urnammu

Female Head from Warka

Votive statues from Abu Temple

Ram and Tree, Offering Stand from Ur Fluted gold cup from Ur.

Standard of UrIn one corner of chamber D there was the head of a man covered with

thousands of little beads made of lapis lazuli. It looked as though the beads

had been part of a cap or headdress.

Soundbox of a lyre.

Bulls head from a lyre

Contest between natural and supernatural forces. Hero fighting a bull and a being that is half man/half bull.

Cylinder seal.