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This piece of wall decoration (mosaic) was part of one of the walls of the white temple at Warka (Uruk) city. Stone cones are inlaid on a gypsum background. Uruk period, 3500-2800 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2014, July 30). Mosaic Fragment from Uruk. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/2825/
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