<P> The Warka Vase is a carved alabaster stone vessel found in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk , located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate , in southern Iraq . Like the Uruk Trough and the Narmer Palette from Egypt , it is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture , dated to c. 3200 -- 3000 BC . </P>
<P> The Warka Vase is a carved alabaster stone vessel found in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk , located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate , in southern Iraq . Like the Uruk Trough and the Narmer Palette from Egypt , it is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture , dated to c. 3200 -- 3000 BC . </P>
carved vessel with detail of the goddess inanna
carved vessel with detail of the goddess inanna
The Warka Vase
The Warka Vase