Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate LXXXV · Ur

Vol. XII (1954) · full-page plate
Above: STELE OF UR-NAMMU, reconstructed and partially restored. Above left the symbols of Ishtar and Nanna on a figure speaking to Nanna. 2nd register: libation scene of Ur-Nammu. 3rd register: Ur-Nammu carries the tools to build the ziqqurat. Below: IMPRESSION OF THE SEAL OF UR-NIGINGAR, archivist, found at Ur. On the left sits King Ibbi-Sin, whom the inscription calls "god of his land"; on the right the archivist and behind him a goddess are in adoration.
(da C. L. Woolley, The Development of Sowering Art, Londra 1935, tav. 63a)
Plate LXXXV
(da N. Schneider, Die Siegelingenden der Geschäftsurkunden der Stadt Ur, Bruxelles 1950, tav. 6)
Plate LXXXV
Above: STELE OF UR-NAMMU, reconstructed and partially restored. Above left the symbols of Ishtar and Nanna on a figure speaking to Nanna. 2nd register: libation scene of Ur-Nammu. 3rd register: Ur-Nammu carries the tools to build the ziqqurat. Below: IMPRESSION OF THE SEAL OF UR-NIGINGAR, archivist, found at Ur. On the left sits King Ibbi-Sin, whom the inscription calls "god of his land"; on the right the archivist and behind him a goddess are in adoration.

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