Description: The king stands on an elevated base. He is wearing a long robe to his feet. His feet can be seen through the robe. Details of the robe are incised. His hands are clasped together. A decorated gold inlay is on the middle of his chest. He wears a long stylized beard and wig. The general scholarly consensus is that this statue is not ancient.
Provenance: Said to have been found on the bank of the Tigris about 1875. By 1938: with Fahim Kouchakji; 1938: purchased by the MFA for $11,000.
Name one good thing about Nineveh that doesn’t revolve around pleasing Inanna.
Inanna, Inanna, Inanna. That’s all you hear all day at Nineveh.
Now Marduk. That’s a god.
It is not Babylon.
Whatever. It’s just some trading post for Uruk.
Marduk desires not the barren wasteland of your desiccated viscera.