Eye inlay for a statue

c. 2600–2500 BC · Sumer

Eye inlay for a statue, from Sumer, dated c. 2600–2500 BC. It was found at Nippur. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 2600–2500 BC

Civilization

Sumer

Found at

Nippur

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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