Discuss the iconography on the Carved Vessel from Uruk
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
The narrative is organized into three different registers on the soft, white alabaster.
The story is told is reduced to the essential elements.
The lower register shows the sources of life in the natural world, whereas, the middle register shows naked men carrying baskets.
The top register shows the goddess Inanna accepting offerings.
The scene may represent a reenactment of the ritual marriage between the goddess and her consort, Dumuzi.
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