Gunduk Cave and Reliefs

Image View Description

Interior of the cave and the reliefs

Date

ca. 25th century BCE; the earliest relief might be from the Late Uruk Period (ca. 3000 BCE)

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