Cylinder Seal with King Etana Ascending to Heaven on an Eagle, Akkadian period, 2340–2150 BC, shell, found at Girsu (Tello, Iraq)
Musée du Louvre, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities, Paris. Sarzec expedition. Alban Rey purchase, 1879. Image © Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau / Art Resource, NY