Ancient Near Eastc. 9000-539 BCE

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Anatolian Goddess giving birth, from Çatal Hüyük, Turkey Neolithic Era c. 6500-5700 BCE

c. 6500-5700 BCE

War Side and Peace Side of the Standard of Ur, Royal cemetery, c. 2600 BCE, Sumerian

Presentations of offering to Inanna, from Uruk Sumerian, c. 3200-3000 BCE

Female Head from UrukMesopotamian culturec. 3500-3000 BCE

White Temple on its ziggurat (raised up or high, imitation mountains), Uruk, Mesopotamia, Unique to Mesopotamia, c3500-3000 BCE

Cylinder Seal and Impression, Uruk, c. 3500-3000 BCE

Statues from Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, Early Sumer dynastic Period c2700-2500 BCE

Lyre Sound box and inlay, from the tomb of Queen Puabi, Urc2685 BCE

Head of an Akkadian ruler, possibly Sargon I, Nineveh, Akkad c. 2300-2100 BCE

Victory stele (an upright stone marker) of Naram-Sin, from Susa, c. 2254-2218 BCE

Head of Gudea, from Lagash, Neo Sumerian Culture, c. 2100-1800/1900 BCE

Gudea with the Temple Plan, from Lagash, Neo Sumerian Culture, c. 2100-1800/1900 BCE

The Law Code of Hammurabi, Susa, capital of Elam, now Iran, c. 1792-1750 BCE, Babylonian

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