Description: The king stands on an elevated base. He is wearing a long robe to his feet. His feet can be seen through the robe. Details of the robe are incised. His hands are clasped together. A decorated gold inlay is on the middle of his chest. He wears a long stylized beard and wig. The general scholarly consensus is that this statue is not ancient.
Provenance: Said to have been found on the bank of the Tigris about 1875. By 1938: with Fahim Kouchakji; 1938: purchased by the MFA for $11,000.
Better copper than in ur, anyway.
It’s not that Ur’s copper is bad, it’s that they only trade the bad stuff and keep the good stuff for themselves.
there are many reasons why we should stay in Nineveh.
Name one good thing about Nineveh that doesn’t revolve around pleasing Inanna.
Inanna, Inanna, Inanna. That’s all you hear all day at Nineveh.
Now Marduk. That’s a god.
Name one good thing about Nineveh
It is not Babylon.
Whatever. It’s just some trading post for Uruk.
Marduk desires not the barren wasteland of your desiccated viscera.
Might as well compromise and move to either Sodom or Gomorrah.
You’re right. I will compromise. I will sell the wife.
After all, you’ve got two more.
2? What am I some sort of poor Elamite barbarian? I have 7 other wives.
