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Mask of Warka

c. 3100 BCE · Also known as Lady of Uruk, Lady of Warka

The Mask of Warka, also called the Lady of Uruk, is a marble sculpture of a female face from Uruk, dating from about 3100 BCE and found in 1939. Probably part of a composite cult statue with inlaid eyes and eyebrows, it is one of the earliest naturalistic representations of the human face; stolen from the Iraq Museum in 2003, it was recovered later that year.

Mask of Warka
Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Mask of Warka. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/mask-of-warka
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