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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 2

Mesopotamia

 

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Sculpted Stela of Wrestlers 2900 B.C. Badra, Iraq

Iraq Museum H: 0.85m., W: 0.33m

 

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Khafaji Temple Oval Early Dynastic Period, 3000-2340 B.C. reconstruction by Hamilton D. Darby

Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, 1970, p.43

 

3.

 

 

Copper Statuette of Wrestlers Khafaji, Nintu Temple Early Dynastic Period, ca. 2600 B.C.

Iraq Museum, Baghdad H: 0.102 m

 

 

4.

 

 

Terracotta Plaque of Wrestlers and Boxers Khafaji, Nintu Temple Early Dynastic Period, 3000-2340 B.C.

Iraq Museum, Baghdad W: 0.24 m

 

 

5.

 

 

Clay Tablet on which is written in Sumerian the Hymn to King Shulgi of Ur 1800 B.C.

 

6.

 

 

Terracotta Tablet showing Boxers and Musicians Sinkara (Larsa) Old Babylonian, 1200 B.C.

H: 0.115, W:0.063

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Map of Mesopotamia