Bowl

Bronze. Hemispherical. With incised cuneiform inscription (B.C. 2600): Sar-ga-il - sar-ri, lugal, a-ga-deki, sa-ki-be-li, warad-zu.

Legrain publication: "Hemispherical bronze - or copper - bowl, with an incised cuneiform inscription as follow: ar-ga-il - sar-ri, lugal, a-ga-deki, sa-ki-be-li, warad-zu 'To Shargali-sharri, king of Agade, Shaki-beli his servant.' As the kind lived in South Mesopotamia, about 2600 B.C., the presence of the inscribed bowl among the Lustrian bronzes raises an interesting historical and geographical problem. According to a letter of A. Upham Pope - Tehran, May 16, 1931 - the bowl 'came from Piravend, about five miles due north from Tak-i-Bostan. It is politically Kurdistan, but it is occupied by a mixed population, at least half Lurs. Culturally it is Lustrian. In a small area around Piavend more than two thousand of the so-called Lustrian bronzes have been brought out within nine months. There is a large dagger in the Museum here, that also came from Piravend and it has a cuneiform inscription.' Diameter 120 mm. Height 65 mm."

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