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What's on
Servicemenü
Exhibition - Picture Gallery
Hauptbereich
Pergamonmuseum
Thu 25 April - Sun 8 September 2013
Uruk
5000 Years of the Megacity
| Colossal statue of a hero, ‘Gilgamesh’, plaster cast, original in Khorsabad, late 8th c. BCE © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / photo: Olaf M. Teßmer |
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| Reconstruction of a clay cone mosaic from Uruk at the Vorderasiatisches Museum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / photo: Olaf M. Teßmer |
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| Digital reconstruction: Bit Resh, Seleucid temple for the Near-Eastern god of the heavens, Anu, 3rd/2nd century BCE.
© artefacts-berlin.de; scientific material: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut |
Discovery of the statuette of a 'high priest' in a vessel
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient Department
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient Department