Bassetki statue
The Bassetki statue is a fragmentary copper statue that was found in 1975 near Bassetki ( Dahuk , Iraq ). It is now in the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad (inventory no . : IM 77823 ).
The piece, weighing around 130 kg, dates back to the Akkad period and originally showed a seated, naked man on a pedestal . It was made using the lost wax technique and measures 67 cm in diameter. It is preserved up to a height of 25 cm. There is an Akkadian inscription on the pedestal , suggesting that the statue originally stood in the entrance area to Narām-Sîn's palace. During the Iraq war in 2003, this statue, along with countless other artifacts, was stolen from a museum in Baghdad and later found by the US Army.
Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen and Hasan Qasim from the Dohuk Department of Antiquities discovered a Bronze Age city at the Bassetki site in 2016, which dates back to 3000 BC. Was founded. It was settled for well over 1000 years and at times belonged to the kingdom of Akkade .
literature
- Marc Van de Mieroop : A History of the Ancient Near East. approx. 3000-323 BC. Blackwell, Malden MA et al. 2007, ISBN 0-631-22551-X , pp. 68-69.