• The Uruk Trough is an important Sumerian sculpture found at the site of Uruk, Iraq. It has been part of the British Museum's collection since 1928. Along...
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    cylinder seal handles.: 17  Uruk is also the find place of two of the oldest examples of narrative art, the Uruk Trough and the Warka Vase. Though it...
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  • rendering support to display the cuneiform script in this article correctly. Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east...
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    Warka Vase (redirect from Uruk Vase)
    located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq. Like the Uruk Trough and the Narmer Palette from Egypt, it is one of the earliest surviving...
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    The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the...
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    Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas ewer Uruk Trough Blau Monuments Palmer Cup Standard of Ur Ram in a Thicket Lyres of Ur...
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    portrait busts from the Middle East, north east Syria, (3500–3300 BC) Uruk Trough, one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture from...
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    stone). The Monuments were purchased by A. Blau in 1886 near the city of Uruk (modern-day Iraq). They were eventually acquired by the British Museum. They...
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    works from the southern cities in Sumer proper are the Warka Vase and Uruk Trough, with complex multi-figured scenes of humans and animals, and the Mask...
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    Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas ewer Uruk Trough Blau Monuments Palmer Cup Standard of Ur Ram in a Thicket Lyres of Ur...
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  • Warka Vase 3300 BC – The Four Dogs Palette, the Tell Brak Head, and the Uruk Trough 3400 BC – The Bronocice pot 3450 BC – The Gebel el-Arak Knife 3500 BC...
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    Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas ewer Uruk Trough Blau Monuments Palmer Cup Standard of Ur Ram in a Thicket Lyres of Ur...
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  • Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas ewer Uruk Trough Blau Monuments Palmer Cup Standard of Ur Ram in a Thicket Lyres of Ur...
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    portrait busts from the Middle East, north east Syria, (3500–3300 BC) Uruk Trough, one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture from...
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    Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas ewer Uruk Trough Blau Monuments Palmer Cup Standard of Ur Ram in a Thicket Lyres of Ur...
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  • appearance to trough and scarp sets, but appear geologically distinct from the terrain in which they traverse. It is thought that the troughs are younger...
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    Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-06-15. Culture/period Uruk, Date 3100BC (circa1), Museum number 141632 Dumbrill 2005, p. 310. Dumbrill...
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    spacing of the impressions on brick stamps found in the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk and Larsa, dating from the 2nd millennium BC, has been conjectured by some...
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    invention of clay pipes, sewers, and toilets, in Mesopotamia, with the city of Uruk today exhibiting the earliest known internal pit toilet, from c. 3200 BC...
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  • crest and trough is onshore directed. This mass transport is localized in the upper part of the water column, i.e. above the wave troughs. To compensate...
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    remove wastewater from sites, and capture rainwater, in wells. The city of Uruk contains the oldest known examples of brick constructed Latrines, constructed...
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    than a spilling wave, becomes vertical, then curls over and drops onto the trough of the wave, releasing most of its energy at once in a relatively violent...
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    depth A wave is described using the following dimensions: Wave height (from trough to crest) Wave length (from crest to crest) Wave period (time interval between...
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  • first appearing in Day of the Daleks (1972). They strongly resemble Orcs or Uruk-hai from The Lord of the Rings, being large humanoids with thick gray skin...
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    tropical West Africa, however copper and lead workings have been in the Benue Trough in southeastern Nigeria. With the exception of a few areas near Kilembe...
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    remove wastewater from sites, and capture rainwater, in wells. The city of Uruk hosts the earliest known examples of brick constructed Latrines, both squat...
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    height – Difference between the elevations of a crest and a neighbouring trough Ursell number – Dimensionless number indicating the nonlinearity of long...
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    centre of the end lines. They consist of a shallow slope leading up to a trough into which the puck may be pushed or flicked. Goals are commonly constructed...
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    wavelengths of light absorption by neutral hydrogen making Gunn–Peterson troughs. The resulting ionized gas (mainly free electrons) in the intergalactic...
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    associated with wave propagation are: Wave height (vertical distance from trough to crest) Wave length (distance from crest to crest in the direction of...
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