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| Picture No | 10980226 |
| Date | May 1934 |
| Description | Sumerian Cult-Statues |
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Two of the twelve statues found during excavations at Tell Asmar, fifty miles north-east of Baghdad. On the left is the Lord of Fertility, and to the left, the Mother Goddess. The former, including base, is about 30 inches high.
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| Source | Photograph by Mrs Rigmor Jacobsen, staff photographer to the Iraq expedition of Chicago University Oriental Institute, reproduced on the cover of The Illustrated London News, 19 May 1934 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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