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Fragment of a group portraying two goddesses with a jar
 © Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Fragment of a group portraying two goddesses with a jar

Schistose stone, 19th-18th cent. B.C.
Provenance uncertain
Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. AO 6974

This fragment is a masterpiece of Southern Mesopotamian relief carving from this period. The two goddesses held a jar between them, from which trickles of water flowed onto their gowns, probably representative of underground waters, that is, the primordial ocean.