File:Diorite head of Puzur-Ishtar, prince or governor of Mari. From Babylon, Iraq, purchase before 1899. The Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.jpg

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English: Diorite head of Puzur-Ishtar (Old-Babylonian period, early 2nd millennium BCE), prince or governor of Mari (modern-day Tell Hariri, Syria). The head came from Babylon, Iraq through a purchase before 1899. The torso is in the Ancient Orient Museum in Istanbul, Turkey (acquired through excavations). Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. NB: Originally from Mari, found in Babylon. The statue was brought from Mari to Babylon as war booty during the neo-Babylonian period and was found in the palace museum of Nebuchadnezzar II.
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