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Stele of the Vultures: Description, Overview & Discovery

The Stele of the Vultures is a monument from the Early Dynastic IIIb period (2600–2350 BC) in Mesopotamia celebrating a victory of the city-state of Lagash over its neighbour Umma in the Umma–Lagash war. It shows various battle and religious scenes and is named after the vultures that can be seen in one of these scenes. The stele was originally carved…

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Stele of the Vultures topic overview

The analysis highlights Description, Overview and Discovery as prominent areas in the source structure around Stele of the Vultures.

Related topics
30
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
33
Extracted relationships
59
Concept neighborhoods
20
Bridge connections
33

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Description · 15 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Discovery · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Created
c. 2475 BC
Discovered
c. 1883 Tello, Dhi Qar, Iraq
Discovered by
Ernest Sarzec
Identification
AO 16 IO9, AO 50, AO 2246, AO 2348
Material
Limestone
Present location
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Discovery

Description

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Stele of the Vultures connects Entity context

The extracted context around Stele of the Vultures shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Stele of the Vultures → Another Look, Archäologie, Assyriologie, Avvoltoi, Cartouches, Davide, Eannatum, Early Sumerian Art, How, Iraq, Irene, King, Kish, La Stele, Nadali, Stele, Una, Vicino Oriente, Vultures, XIII Another extracted example is Stele of the Vultures → Another, British Museum, Ernest, French, Girsu, Iraq, It, Louvre, Sarzec, Stele, Tello, The, Thureau-Dangin, Vultures, While. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Stele of the Vultures

Top relations

related to Further reading · 21
Stele of the Vultures → Another Look, Archäologie, Assyriologie, Avvoltoi, Cartouches, Davide, Eannatum, Early Sumerian Art, How, Iraq, Irene, King, Kish, La Stele, Nadali, Stele, Una, Vicino Oriente, Vultures, XIII
related to Discovery · 15
Stele of the Vultures → Another, British Museum, Ernest, French, Girsu, Iraq, It, Louvre, Sarzec, Stele, Tello, The, Thureau-Dangin, Vultures, While
related to External links · 13
Stele of the Vultures → Character, Chicago Press, Culture, ISBN, Kramer, LouvreText, Samuel Noah, Stele, The Stele, The Sumerians, Their History, University, Vultures
Created · 1
Stele of the Vultures → c. 2475 BC
Discovered · 1
Stele of the Vultures → c. 1883 Tello, Dhi Qar, Iraq
Discovered by · 1
Stele of the Vultures → Ernest Sarzec
Identification · 1
Stele of the Vultures → AO 16 IO9, AO 50, AO 2246, AO 2348
Material · 1
Stele of the Vultures → Limestone
Present location · 1
Stele of the Vultures → Musée du Louvre, Paris
Registration · 1
Stele of the Vultures → CDLI P222399

Important terminology

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Important terminology

stele vultures lagash louvre umma fragments monument eannatum register tello iraq battle known sumerian bc limestone ningirsu two side figure

Stele of the Vultures relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 59 structured relationships around Stele of the Vultures. Examples in this analysis include Stele of the Vultures → Created → c. 2475 BC and Stele of the Vultures → Discovered → c. 1883 Tello, Dhi Qar, Iraq. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Stele of the VulturesCreatedc. 2475 BC1.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesDiscoveredc. 1883 Tello, Dhi Qar, Iraq1.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesDiscovered byErnest Sarzec1.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesIdentificationAO 16 IO9, AO 50, AO 2246, AO 23481.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesMaterialLimestone1.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesPresent locationMusée du Louvre, Paris1.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesRegistrationCDLI P2223991.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesSizeHeight: 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) Width: 1.3 metres (4 ft 3 in) Thickness: 11 centimetres (4.3 in)1.00infobox
Stele of the VulturesWritingSumerian cuneiform1.00infobox
Stele of the Vulturesis amonument from the Early Dynastic IIIb period0.90text
Stele of the Vulturesrelated to DiscoveryThe0.60section
Stele of the Vulturesrelated to DiscoveryFrench0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Stele of the Vultures bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Vultures, Lagash and Louvre. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Stele of the Vultures
    • Vultures
    • Lagash
    • Louvre
    • Battle
    • Fragment
    • Museum
    • Victory
    • Bc
    • Early
    • Known
    • Eannatum
    • Monument
  • stele of the vultures
    • Vultures
    • Lagash
    • Another
    • Fragment
    • Louvre
    • Battle
    • Museum
    • Victory
    • Bc
    • Early
    • Known
    • Eannatum
  • umma–lagash war
    • Monument
    • Battle
    • Eannatum
    • Mesopotamia
    • Umma
    • Victory
    • Vultures
    • Stele
    • Upper
    • King
    • Bc
    • Early
  • stele
    • Vultures
    • Lagash
    • Louvre
    • Fragment
    • Museum
    • Victory
    • Bc
    • Early
    • Known
    • Eannatum
    • Monument
    • Fragments
  • victory stele of naram-sin
    • Umma
    • Vultures
    • Lagash
    • War
    • Louvre
    • Fragment
    • Museum
    • Victory
    • Bc
    • Early
    • King
    • Known
  • ush, king of umma
    • Victory
    • Battle
    • Eannatum
    • Lagash
    • Register
    • Another
    • Fragment
    • Historical
    • Upper
    • War
    • Mythological
    • Shows
  • lagash
    • Battle
    • Eannatum
    • Umma
    • Vultures
    • Stele
    • Upper
    • Victory
    • King
    • Monument
    • Register
    • Mesopotamia
    • War
  • vultures
    • Another
    • Fragment
    • Battle
    • War
    • Historical
    • Museum
    • Part
    • Upper
    • King
    • Mythological
    • Scenes
    • Shows

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Stele of the Vultures, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Stele of the Vultures with Description. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Stele of the VulturesDescription · splits 18 ⟂ 16
Stele of the VulturesOverview · splits 20 ⟂ 14
Stele of the VulturesDiscovery · splits 31 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Stele of the Vultures

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples59
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Stele of the Vultures to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Description, Overview & Discovery, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Stele of the Vultures · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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