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Daily Data: The Uruk Vase

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For a good illustration of the relief found on the vase, please look here: https://tinyurl.com/y8mesg56

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More information:
Bahrani, Zainab; 2002. “Performativity and the image: narrative, representation and the Uruk vase,” in Leaving no stones unturned: essays on the Ancient Near East and Egypt in honor of Donald P. Hansen. E. Ehrenberg (ed.). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2002: pages 15-22. (https://tinyurl.com/y9x3pd98)
Cooper, Jerrold S. 1993. "Sacred Marriage and Popular Cult in Early Mesopotamia", in E. Matsushima (ed.), 
Official Cult and Popular Religion in the Ancient Near East, p. 81-96.
Cooper, Jerrold S. 2013. "Sex in the Temple",  in K. Kaniuth,
A. Löhnert, J. L. Miller, A. Otto, M. Roaf, and W. Sallaberger (eds.) Tempel im Alten Orient: 7. Internationales
Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 11.–13. Oktober 2009, München, p. 49-58.
Lapinkivi, Pirjo. 2004. The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence. State
Archives of Assyria, Studies 15.
Lewis, M. and M. Feldman, 'The 'Victory Stele' of Naram-Sin of Akkad and the Development of the Public Monument in Ancient Mesopotamia' (https://tinyurl.com/y8mesg56) 
Steinkeller, Piotr. 1999. "On Rulers, Priests and Sacred Marriage: Tracing the Evolution of Early Sumerian Kingship", in K. Watanabe (ed.), Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East,  p. 103–37
Suter, C. 2014. "Human, Divine, or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts", in B. A. Brown and M. Feldman (eds.) Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art, p. 545-568.
Winter, Irene J. 2007. "Representing Abundance: The Visual Dimension of the Agrarian State", in E. Stone (ed.) Settlement and Society: Essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams, p. 117–38

For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:

http://www.etana.org/abzubib - collection of free and open-access data
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/orie... - University of Chicago Oriental Institute, great collection of free books and articles
http://www.livius.org - general encyclopedia on the ancient world
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk - Mesopotamian literature
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu - collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/neps... - Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
https://cdli.ucla.edu - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

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