Mesopotamian Sculpture

Mesopotamian Sculpture, vintage 8 x 10 inch pearl finish double-weight photograph depicting "Mesopotamian - Sculpture - Babylonian." Additional notation reads "Group of wild goats, XX cent. B.C., Louvre." The original piece is housed in the Louvre Museum, France. Printed in the second half of the 20th century as part of the American Heritage Publishing Archive. 

Mesopotamia is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria, as well as parts of southeastern Turkey and of southwestern Iran. Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization by the Western world, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq.

Verso bears original filing notations and/or credit stampings and/or handwritten notations. In very good condition.

Provenance: From the American Heritage Publishing Archives.