Sumerian Alabaster Inscribed Statuette Fragment

An ancient Sumerian polished alabaster shoulder fragment from a statuette, bearing an incised inscription reading: Ama-ur…, supervisor for (the god) Shara.

Early Dynastic Period.

Ca. 2500 - 2400 BC.

Height: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm).

cf.: Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, (New York, 2003), pp. 430-431, for a Sumerian statuette with inscription on the shoulder.

Formerly in an English private collection.

Inv#: 8064

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$7,500