File:Dumuzi aux enfers.jpg

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Français : Impression d'un sceau cylindrique qui pourrait illustrer un épisode de la mythologie sumérienne où Dumuzi, un berger originaire de la ville d'Uruk, fut contraint de descendre dans le monde souterrain.
English: Printing of a cylindrical seal which might depict a tale from Sumerian mythology in which Dumuzi, a shepherd hailing from the city of Uruk, was compelled to enter the underworld.
Date from 2600 until 2300 BC
date QS:P571,-2500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,-2600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,-2300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Middle East
Accession number
123279
Place of discovery Nuzi
References cylinder seal - British Museum. britishmuseum.org. British Museum. Retrieved on 11 December 2023.
Source/Photographer Henrietta Mac Call (1999) Mesopotamian Myths (University of Texas Press & British Museum Publications ed.), Bath (Avon), p. 71 ISBN: 9780292751309.

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