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Arts and Crafts

The Sumerians had a wide range of arts, much like today. They played instruments and wrote poetry, they imported stone for sculpture as stone was rare and used metals, shells and precious stones in their sculptures.

The Sumerians also developed pottery, invented the potters wheel, and jewellery. Great works found from excavations include, Lady of Warka a female head carved from white marble and an alabaster vase showing a procession of men and animals going to Inanna, goddess of fertility.

Cylinder seals, an important artform, were small cylinders of metal or stone, carved with a signature, to be rolled over moist clay as indentification.

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Sumerian and Babylonian Art

Art History of Mesopotamia