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Sumerian Relief Plaque with a Banquet Scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Sumerian Relief Plaque with a Banquet Scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008
Relief Plaque with a Banquet Scene
Alabaster (gypsum)
Room 161, level VIIB
Early Dynastic IIIa, 2600-2500 BC

Accession # 62.70 a,b

The banquet scene, a fundamental theme in Early Dynastic art, may represent a fertility ritual between the king and the goddess Inanna or her high priestess. Such a banquet is probably represented in the shell inlay of a seated woman below.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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