Description (Catalog Card): Diorite statue. Of Entemena. Found in burnt layer on Nabonidus pavement before the inner doorway of the Ziggurat gate in the SW temenos wall. Headless. Long inscription on rt. upper arm and across back of shoulders. Wears usual fleece skirt: hands clasped below breasts.1     
Description (Archival): University of Pennsylvania Museum cast B15890     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Temenos Wall, SW gate     
Material (Catalog Card): Diorite2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht 0.76     
Text Genre: Royal/Monumental      
Dates Referenced: Entemena     
U Number: 805     
Museum: The National Museum of Iraq      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian      
Description (Modern): Statue of Entemena, inscribed, headless     
Description (Modern): Object is not sealed.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite      
Museum Number (IM Number): IM 5     
Tablet ID Number: P222506     
Modern Copies: UPM has a plaster copy B15890     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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