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Daily Data: Early Dynastic Votive Statuary

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More information:
Evans, J. 2012. The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple. Cambridge. (https://tinyurl.com/y9ctmbwg)
Evans, J. 2014. 'The Tell Asmar Horde and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture', in B. A. Brown and M. Feldman (eds.), Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art, pp. 645-665. Boston, MA, and Berlin. (https://tinyurl.com/yd3om9ee)
Frankfort, H. 1939. Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafājah. Chicago, IL. (https://tinyurl.com/yap2dp5j)
Lewis, M. and M. Feldman. Mesopotamian Votive Statuary from the Early Dynastic Period
(https://tinyurl.com/y7ml3gak)
Winter, I. J. 2000. 'The Eyes have it. Votive Statuary, Gilgamesh's Axe, and Cathected Viewing in the Ancient Near East', in R. S. Nelson (ed.), Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw', pp. 22-44. Cambridge. (https://tinyurl.com/ybfbwtbm)
The Met Museum, Early Dynastic Sculpture, 2900–2350 B.C. (https://tinyurl.com/y9pa83wx)

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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