670 lb.) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931 (31.13.1) Image: www.metmuseum.org. VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa ...

Spanning 3,000 years of Mesopotamian history (an area that roughly corresponds ... historical artefacts as well as magnificent works of art, such as an alabaster statue, from around 2250BC ...

That they depict women of all classes, not just the elite, carrying out daily activities—even a scene of childbirth, rarely seen throughout art history ... of Southern Mesopotamia, and the ...

They date back to the Akkad period (2300BC-2150BC), which, Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian history—featuring charismatic kings such as Naram-Sin ...

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