A baked clay pot, sporting a goat, from Umma which is dated to the Amorite dynasty of the nineteentheighteenth century B.C.E. (housed at the Louvre, Paris: [17]).

A baked clay pot, sporting a goat, from Umma which is dated to the Amorite dynasty of the nineteentheighteenth century B.C.E. (housed at the Louvre, Paris: [17]).

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