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.