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HOW MANY SOLDIERS ON THE “STELE OF THE VULTURES”? A HYPOTHETICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2015

Davide Nadali
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Abstract

The study presents a reconstruction of the arrangement of the soldiers of Lagash as represented in the first and second registers of the “Stele of the Vultures” of King Eannatum according to both philological and iconographic data. Through a process of deconstruction, it is possible to read the composition as the result of a combination of two perspectives employed by the Sumerian artists.

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IRAQ , Volume 76 , December 2014 , pp. 141 - 148
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2015 

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