Carved on both sides, this limestone slab celebrated King Eannatum of Lagash's victory over the neighbouring city of Umma. One face shows the god Ningirsu holding the enemy trapped in a great net; the other shows Eannatum leading a dense phalanx of shielded spearmen over the fallen. Found in fragments at Tello in southern Iraq, it is the earliest known war monument.
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In the top register, vultures fly off with the severed heads of the enemy dead, the detail that gave the stele its name.
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