Head of a high priestess (?) with inlaid eyes; Alabaster, shell, lapis lazuli, and bitumen. .Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar), area EH, south of gipar. Akkadian period (ca. 2334–2154 BC).
© University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, USA, Excavated 1926; B16228

Statue of a goddess, 6th millennium BC.; terracotta. 6000-3700 BC. Found in Tell-es-Sawwan· Samarra.
© Baghdad National Iraq Museum. Image ID: 262379.

Steatopygous figure, Tell Halaf, 6th-5th Millennium BC.; terracotta.
© Baghdad National Iraq Museum. Image ID: 227645.

Halaf-style fertility statuette made of terracotta. 4500 BC.
Louvre Museum.

Statuette of a woman, early 4th millennium BC.; alabaster. 6000-3700 BC· Found in Tell es-sawwan, Samarra.
© Baghdad National Iraq Museum. Image ID: 207758.

Alabaster figure of a kneeling woman the site of Tell es-Sawwan (3000 BC.) Dim. 9.4 cm.
© Baghdad National Iraq Museum. Image ID: 951730.

Female figure. Terracotta sculpture. Neo-Sumerian period (between 2093 and 2004 BC).
© Baghdad National Museum of Iraq.

Great Lyre from the “King’s Grave” (left) and Detail of Front Panel of the Great Lyre from the “King’s Grave” (right); Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell, bitumen, and wood. Height: 35.6 cm (head), 33 cm (plaque). PG 789; B17694 (U.10556). Ur, Iraq, ca. 2650–2550 B.C.
© University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Ram Caught in a Thicket; Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, copper, shell, red limestone, and bitumen. Height: 42.6 cm. PG 1237, the “Great Death Pit”; 30-12-702 (U.12357). Ur, ca. 2650–2550 B.C.
© University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology