Nippur: Media
ancient city, Iraq
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Iraq museum: gypsum female figure
Female figure, made of gypsum, with a gold mask that stood at a temple altar in Nippur,...
Courtesy of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad; photograph, David Lees
Sumerian inscription from a temple at Nippur
Sumerian cuneiform inscription from the temple dedicated to Enlil at Nippur, Iraq.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941, 41.160.187, www.metmuseum.org
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