Understated by luscious jewellery from the royal graves of
Ur, on the banks of the Euphrates, at the British Museum. The statue below is a bit later, about 2100 BC. A king called
Gudea built 15 temples and also had a lot of these "postbox feet"
statues made - most are in the Louvre. This one, broken (and pitted), would have been particularly large.
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