ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an inscribed sculpture of an individual named Eshpum, one of a group of sculptures belonging to the third quarter of the third millennium. It scrutinizes one of the sculptural objects in the extraordinary collection associated with the ruler Puzur Inshushinak, a contemporary of the Mesopotamian rulers Gudea and Urnamma at the end of the third millennium. The subject of this first case study, the sculpture of Eshpum, belongs to the earlier body of material retrieved from a context that Pierre Amiet has reconstructed from the unpublished notes of its excavator, Roland de Mecquenem. The second case study tackles a similarly knotty problem in Elamite sculpture, engaging with the sculptural works associated with Puzur Inshushinak, identified on the King List of Awan and Shimashki as the last king of the Dynasty of Awan. The vignette of the peg god and the lama has been the primary focus in discussions of the galet of Puzur Inshushinak.
