Gunduk Cave and Reliefs

Date: ca. 25th century BCE; the earliest relief might be from the Late Uruk Period (ca. 3000 BCE)
Image View Description: Interior of the cave and the reliefs
Work Type: sculpture
Style/Period: Late Uruk (attributed)
Style/Period 2: Late Early Dynastic
Culture: Sumerian
Subject: Hunting a mountain goat
Location: Gunduk (Iraq)
Notes: There are three reliefs carved on the western wall of the cave, two of which were seriously damaged after an explosion in 1994.
Image Source: Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Photographer: Serdar Yalcin
Record ID: 1314_iraq2013_gundukcave_vr_01


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