met-ancient-art:Pendant amulet in the form of abird, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near East
met-ancient-art:Pendant amulet in the form of a bird, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern ArtRogers Fund, 1959Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYMedium: Shellhttp://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324874[ID: colored photo from the link]The item itself is quite small; the dimensions are 0.1 x 1.1 x 0.87 in. or 0.25 x 2.79 x 2.21 cm. It is Sumerian, dated from 2900–2350 BCE, and made from a shell. It was excavated from the ruins of the ancient city Nippur, which would have been called Nibru by Sumerians (written , EN.LÍLKI, “Enlil City”) or Nibbur by Akkadians, which located in the Afaq District of the Al-Qadisiyyah Governorate in modern-day south-central Iraq. Enlil City was the seat of worship for the god Enlil (wind, air, earth, and storms) whose name translates literally to “Lord Wind” as the personification of wind. -- source link
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