id: 140011 accession number: 1963.680 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.680 updated: 2025-06-27 11:13:13.943000 Head of Gudea, ensi of Lagash, 2144–2124 BCE. Mesopotamia, Iraq, Lagash (Tello). Dolerite; overall: 21 x 17.8 x 20.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1963.680 title: Head of Gudea, ensi of Lagash title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2144–2124 BCE creation date earliest: -2144 creation date latest: -2124 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Mesopotamia, Iraq, Lagash (Tello) technique: dolerite department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21 x 17.8 x 20.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 x 8 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE I. E. Gejou or Elias S. David date: 1924-1938 footnotes: citations: Feuerdent Collection date: 1932-1946 footnotes: citations: Elias S. David date: 1946-1963 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 138765 Statue of Gudea, c. 2144–2124 BCE. Mesopotamia, Neo-Sumerian, Iraq, Girsu. Dolerite; overall: 126 x 55 x 36 cm (49 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1963.154 relationship: --- CITATIONS Scheil, Vincent. "Nouvelles Statues de Gudea." Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale, volume 27, no. 4 (1930): 161-166. pl. V. page number: Mentioned on page 161-166, reproduced on plate 5 url: Parrot, André. Tello; Vingt Campagnes de Fouilles (1877-1933). Paris: A. Michel (1948): 167-169. page number: Mentioned on 167, reproduced on 169, pl. XVI, b url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Gudea, Patési of Lagash.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 9 (1963): 243–248. page number: Mentioned on 244-248, reproduced on 244-246 url: A. P. "Gudéa, Patesi de Lagash, dans The Cleveland Museum of Art, novembre 1963, pp.243-248." Syria 41, no. 1/2 (1964): 146–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4197449. page number: Mentioned on 146-147 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n34 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n32 Cleveland Museum of Art, Weisberg, Gabriel P., and Janson, H. W. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art (1975): 29. page number: Reproduced on page 29 url: Johansen, Flemming. Statues of Gudea, Ancient and Modern. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978): 27, 97-98.8-99. page number: Mentioned on page 27, reproduced on page 98-99. url: Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications (1989): 21. page number: url: Reade, Julian. "Early monuments in Gulf stone at the British Museum, with observations on some Gudea statues and the location of Agade." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 92 (2002): 276-284. page number: Mentioned on 281 and 284 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.680/1963.680_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.680/1963.680_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.680/1963.680_full.tif