Description
Detailed descriptions were published by Henri Frankfort (1936), Pauline Albenda (2005) and in a monograph by Dominique Collon, curator at the British Museum, where the plaque is now housed. The composition as a whole is unique among works of art from Mesopotamia, even though many elements have interesting counterparts in other images from that time.
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