Statue of the Governor of Tura-Dagan

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Mesopotamian art endures in numerous forms: cylinder seals, relatively small three-dimensional figures, and reliefs of various sizes, including inexpensive plaques of molded pottery for domestic use, some bearing religious themes and others not. Popular subjects include deities alone or with devotees, as well as animals in multiple scene types: repeated in rows, solitary, fighting each other or a human, confronted animals standing alone or flanking a human or god in the Master of Animals motif, or a Tree of Life. Stone stelae, votive offerings, and commemorative monuments, possibly marking victories and depicting feasts, are found in temples that lack inscriptions explaining their significance; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, while the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III represents a large and well-preserved late example.