Little man from Warka

The 18 cm high fragment of a statuette that was found during excavations in Warka in southern Iraq is called the Little Man of Warka . It was established between 3200 and 3000 BC. BC, i.e. in the Uruk period , made of alabaster . Today it is in the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad . It was found in a vessel southeast of the stone pen temple .

The figure shows a male figure with an unclothed upper body. The lower body was probably covered with a skirt.

literature

• Donald P. Hansen : Early Sumerian and Early Dynastic Round Sculpture. In: Winfried Orthmann : The Old Orient (= Propylaea Art History . Vol. 14). Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1975, pp. 158–170, here p. 161, plate 10.