Gudea Cylinders

Server Costs Fundraiser 2024

Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate and contribute to covering our server costs in 2024. With your support, millions of people learn about history entirely for free every month.
$3890 / $18000

Illustration

Ibolya Horváth
by Ramessos
published on 13 February 2017
Gudea Cylinders Download Full Size Image

These two cylinders were commissioned by Gudea of Lagash (c. 2144-2124 BCE) as a literary and historical record of the construction of the temple of Ningirsu.
Louvre, Paris

Remove Ads
Advertisement

Cite This Work

APA Style

Ramessos. (2017, February 13). Gudea Cylinders. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6355/gudea-cylinders/

Chicago Style

Ramessos. "Gudea Cylinders." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified February 13, 2017. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6355/gudea-cylinders/.

MLA Style

Ramessos. "Gudea Cylinders." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 13 Feb 2017. Web. 26 Jul 2024.

Membership