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    The art of Uruk encompasses the sculptures, seals, pottery, architecture, and other arts produced in Uruk, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia that...
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  • this article correctly. Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an...
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    history of Mesopotamia, after the Ubaid period and before the Jemdet Nasr period. Named after the Sumerian city of Uruk, this period saw the emergence of urban...
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    characteristic of Mesopotamian art of the Late Uruk (Uruk IV, c. 3350–3200 BC) period. The same "Priest-King" in visible in several Mesopotamian works of art of the...
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  • 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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    The Mask of Warka (named after the modern village of Warka located close to the ancient city of Uruk), also known as the Lady of Uruk, dating from 3100...
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    Warka Vase (redirect from Uruk Vase)
    or Uruk vase is a slim carved alabaster vessel found in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk, located...
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  • Orc (redirect from Uruk-hai)
    new breed of orc had emerged, the Uruk-hai, larger and more powerful, and no longer afraid of daylight. Orcs eat meat, including the flesh of Men, and...
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    Gilgamesh (redirect from Gilgamesh of Uruk)
    Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His rule probably would have taken place sometime in the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period...
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    come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500...
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    (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames"), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). These independent stories were...
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    Mesopotamian Uruk culture, and ceremonial mace heads from the late Gerzean and early Semainean were crafted in the Mesopotamian "pear-shaped" style, instead of the...
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    building practices. According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictographs of the Uruk period era suggest that "Stone was scarce, but was already cut into blocks...
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    motif appears very early, usually with a "naked hero", for example at Uruk in the Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC), but was "outmoded in Mesopotamia by the...
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    History of Sumer The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods...
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    Gebel el-Arak Knife (category Uruk period)
    the design of the clothed wrestler to the Mesopotamian "priest-king" Master of Animals images of the Late Uruk period. Similar portraits of men with beards...
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    traditions of the Sumerians lead to the foundation of Western civilization. Multiple things appeared for the first time in Sumer: the first city-state (Uruk),...
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    Jemdet Nasr (2 Uruk V, 236 Uruk III), Umma, Eshnunna (2 Uruk III), Larsa (23 Uruk III), Khafajah, Kish (5 Uruk III), and Tell Uqair (39 Uruk III). They tend...
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    depicts Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian king of the city-state of Uruk whose legendary exploits are told in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Akkadian epic poem written...
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  • introduced to Uruk (in modern-day Iraq) by the Parthians, who built a temple attributed to him there around 110 AD. Nothing is known so far of this deity...
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    which is our main source of information on the mes, "Inanna and Enki: The Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Uruk", but once again Inanna's...
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    Girsu, Uruk, and Ur. The Third Dynasty of Ur arose some time after the fall of the Akkad Dynasty. The period between the last powerful king of the Akkad...
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    Anu (category Conceptions of God)
    the Eanna temple located in Uruk originally belonged to him, rather than Inanna, but while he is well attested as one of its divine inhabitants, there...
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  • sound and more Uruks will arrive to try to kill him. A core feature of Shadow of Mordor is the Nemesis system. The game can track any Uruk (a nastier orc...
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    thought that the name is the Greek form of the Babylonian Uanna, an Apkallu. These Sages are found in the "Uruk List of Kings and Sages" (165 BC) discovered...
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  • pursue a band of Uruk-hai to save their companions, Merry and Pippin, entering the kingdom of Rohan. The Uruk-hai are ambushed by a group of Rohirrim, allowing...
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    "the gateway of the gods." It became one of history's greatest centers of learning. With the end of the Uruk phase, walled cities grew. Many isolated...
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    Enkidu (category Characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh)
    wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Their exploits were composed in Sumerian poems and in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, written during...
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    Inanna (redirect from Priestesses of Inanna)
    is "the Queen of Heaven". She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, her early main cult center. In archaic Uruk she was worshipped...
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    Lamassu (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    goddess Ishtar, from Uruk (1307-1282 BC). Metropolitan Museum of Art. From Assyrian times, lamassu were depicted as hybrids, with bodies of either winged bulls...
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