Warka Vase

c. 3200–3000 BC · Sumer

One of the world’s oldest narrative carvings: rows of crops, animals and people bringing offerings to the goddess Inanna. Looted from the museum in 2003 and later returned.

Date

c. 3200–3000 BC

Civilization

Sumer

Found at

Uruk

Where it is today

Iraq Museum, Baghdad

Related pieces

• 
  c. 3100 BC

  Mask of Warka (Lady of Uruk)

• 
  c. 2125 BC

  Vase of Utu-hegal, who drove out the Gutians

• 
  c. 4000–3100 BC

  Early Sumerian cylinder seal

• 
  c. 2400 BC

  Marble bowl fragment dedicated to Geshtinanna

• 
  c. 3100–2900 BC

  Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

• 
  c. 2380 BC

  Foundation peg of Lugal-kisal-si, king of Uruk and Ur

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