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The Mask of Warka, also known as …
Years: 3213BCE - 3070BCE
The Mask of Warka, also known as the 'Lady of Uruk' and the 'Sumerian Mona Lisa', dating from 3100 BCE, is one of the earliest representations of the human face.
The carved marble female face is probably a depiction of Inanna.
It is approximately twenty centimeters tall, and may have been incorporated into a larger cult image. (The mask, looted from the National Museum of Iraq during the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, is recovered in September 2003 and returned to the museum.)
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- Subboreal Period during the Neolithic Subpluvial
- Early Bronze Age I (Near and Middle East)
- Piora Oscillation ending the Neolithic Subpluvial
- Subboreal Period
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Years: 3213BCE - 3070BCE
Locations
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- Subboreal Period during the Neolithic Subpluvial
- Early Bronze Age I (Near and Middle East)
- Piora Oscillation ending the Neolithic Subpluvial
- Subboreal Period
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Subregions