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Comparing The Uruk Junk And Inauna

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4) The Uruk vase is believed to be from the Jemdet Nasr period in Uruk. It stands one meter tall and is made of alabaster. Imagery is carved onto the alabaster vessel and is put into certain levels. The bottom level contains water, the next agriculture, then livestock, after men harvesting the agriculture bounty and last at the top, the food being presented before the goddesses Inanna. (Pollock, 1999,189-191) The function of the vase was most likely to hold offerings to the goddess Inanna. While the Uruk vase can potentially be read from either bottom to top or top to bottom. The more likely option seems to be from bottom to top with showing how water supports Mesopotamia (Water was of vital importance to the society) grows their produce which
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