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Paperback
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ISBN 1-931707-89-8
ISBN 978-1-931707-89-3
$24.95
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THE
"UR-NAMMU" STELA
Jeanny
Vorys Canby
Ur-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient
Mesopotamia around 2000 BC. In 1925 a joint expedition
from the Penn Museum and The British Museum discovered
dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu.
The stela was 10 feet high with registers in relief of
scenes of religious practices. By 1927 the best pieces
had been restored in Philadelphia into an imagined version
of the stela, with plaster filling the gaps.
Canby realized that the early reconstruction had been
too hasty, as many pieces simply did not fit together.
Her meticulous re-examination revealed a wealth of new
scenes that revise our understanding of the monument.
This first paperback edition of the 2001 hardcover publication
includes the justification of the reconstructions, description
of the scenes, speculation on the ancient fate of the
stela, as well as a description of each piece with photograph
and drawing.
Jeanny
Vorys Canby is a Research Associate at the Penn Museum
and holds a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College
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