==Figure aux plumes (The Figure with Feathers)==

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//Artifact//: Stone tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ 
//Period//: Early Dynastic I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 221)\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Royal inscription; Sumerian\\ 
[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P220632|CDLI page]]\\ 

//Description//: This text, identified by Gelb (et al. 1991) along with a number of other early texts to represent land-sale documents, precursors to the later kudurrus. This text, however, famously depicts a single large figure wearing a feathered head-band that may represent the god Ningirsu. 

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//Edition(s)//: Gelb, Ignace J, Piotr Steinkeller and Robert M. Whiting. 1991. //Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus.// The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. 104. pp. 66/Pl. 32.; Langdon OECT 7 p. IV.; Edzard SRU no. 112.; Thureau-Dangin, pl. 33, DC 2, pl. 34. 

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