Statuette of the singer Ur-Nanše
The statuette of the singer Ur-Nanše is a 20 cm high plaster stone that was found during archaeological excavations in Tell Hariri in Syria . It dates to about the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. BC and is now in the Syrian National Museum in Damascus .
The figure bears a dedicatory inscription from Iblul-il , the oldest known ruler of Mari. According to this inscription, it is a representation of a singer. Presumably, the statuette originally held a musical instrument, which, however, broke off along with forearms and hands. The eyes of the statuette are made from inlaid seashells and lapis lazuli .
literature
- André Parrot : Les Fouilles de Mari. Huitième campagne (automne 1952). In: Syria. Vol. 30, No. 3/4, 1953, pp. 169–221, here p. 209 ff., Plate 33, doi : 10.3406 / syria.1953.4901 .
- 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. 165, plate 24.