Cult Vessel (“The Vase of Enmetena”), Early Dynastic period, reign of Enmetena, about 2420 BC, silver (vase) and bronze (base), found at Girsu (Tello, Iraq)
Musée du Louvre, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities, Paris. Sarzec expedition, 1888. Gift of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, 1896. Image © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski