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The two famous statuettes depicting a goat standing on the branches of a tree from the Royal Cemetery at Ur were offering stands. Their iconography allows us to trace the importance of the daily determining of the fates ritual known from texts of the 2nd millenniumm BC back to 2500 BC.
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Why is it important?
This is one of many examples that demonstrate the continuity of literary and religious tradition to a time before the stories of Sumer were written down.
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This page is a summary of: A Sacred Landscape of Sumer: Statuettes from Ur Depicting a Goat on a Tree, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, June 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341311.
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