Pictured
here (an object known to have been in Baghdad and to have been stolen
during the looting of the National Museum of Iraq): Diorite statue of
Entemena, back view.
Following excavations by the University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the British
Museum at the Royal Tombs of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) in
the 1920s, half of the excavated material went to the National Museum
of Iraq in Baghdad.
PHOTO CREDIT: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
