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Comme dans ses autres récits déjà publiés aux Belles Lettres (Guerre contre les Vandales

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The lives of sumerian sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple. Divers made of gold and silverThis book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (29002350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology at the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, this book argues