Woman's mask from Uruk

Woman's mask from Uruk

The female mask from Uruk is a woman's head made of marble . This is 8 inches high and was found in Warka in southern Iraq . It originated during the Uruk period at the end of the 4th millennium BC. Today it is in the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad .

The piece represents a singularity. The back is smoothed so that it could possibly be attached to a wall. At the top there is a groove in which the figure's hair was attached. This was probably made of gold sheet. The eyes and eyebrows were also made of a different material and inlaid. These have not been preserved.

literature

• Donald P. Hansen : Early Sumerian and Early Dynastic Round Sculpture. In: Winfried Orthmann : The Old Orient (= Propylaea Art History . Vol. 14). Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin 1975, pp. 158–170, here p. 162, plate 13.