Mother-of-pearl mosaic panels (City II)

Mother-of-pearl mosaic panels (City II). Mari
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These panels, which adorned furniture and chests, feature genre scenes organised according to a coherent system including women spinning wool, sacrificial scenes and priestesses at prayer, banquet scenes and victory scenes, and the parading of naked prisoners. Discovered in the Pre-Sargonic palace.

Mission archéologique de Mari. N° 14327. Archives André Parrot

Mission archéologique de Mari. N° 14327. Archives André Parrot

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