Image: Stele of Vultures detail 01a
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Description: Detail of a fragment of the victory stele of the king Eannatum of Lagash over Umma, called « Stele of Vultures », showing the first evidence of a phalanx. Historical side. Limestone, circa 2450 BC, Sumerian archaic dynasties. Found in 1881 in Girsu (now Tello, Iraq), Mesopotamia, by Édouard de Sarzec.
Title: Stele of Vultures detail 01a
Credit: Eric Gaba (User:Sting), July 2005.
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