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Typical 'Gudea' style of sculpture, in round and relief (Telloh, _Louvre_); materials hard diorite, dolerite and basalt as well as limestone: characteristic treatment of eye with heavily marked brows: elaborate tiaras and head-dresses of female figures, &c.
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Happily, increasing numbers of those in archaeology have acknowledged that interactive 3D modeling can help them better understand their data and we are moving beyond the type of static 2D representation that Prince Gudea used.
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These case studies show that the benefits of virtual heritage go far beyond the capabilities of conventional illustration techniques, especially the traditional 2D drawing types that have been used to represent architecture since the time of Prince Gudea of Lagash.
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In fact, a small statue of Gudea in the Louvre shows him seated on his throne with a slab engraved with a plan, symbolizing the beginning of the construction.
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When Gudea, the prince of Lagash in Sumeria around 2125 B.C., wanted a new temple built he depicted his vision as a simple plan etched in stone.
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But Gudea was depicting future architecture, not history.
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Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress' collections
March 2005 2005
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Right, a diorite statue of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, from Girsu (modern Tello), Mesopotamia.
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Finnish songster Jukka Ammondt's head on a statue of Gudea, governor of the Sumerian city of Lagash ca. 2180 B.C.
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Gudea of Lagash left inscriptions which contain the most important texts in classical Sumerian.
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