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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.
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Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel, 3100–2900 B.C.; Proto-Elamite period
Remains of the white temple on its ziggurat, Uruk, Iraq, c.3500-3000 BC.
Fluted gold cup from Ur. Ram and Tree, Offering Stand 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.
Contest between natural and supernatural forces. Hero fighting a bull and a being that is half man/half bull.Cylinder seal.