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title: "Wararka Vase Creation"
year: 3200
country: "Iraq"
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slug: "wararka-vase"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "3200-01-01"
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# Wararka Vase Creation

> This limestone monument depicts the earliest known festival procession with ranked participants and ceremonial hierarchy, documenting ancient Sumerian civic ritual.

## Summary

The Warka Vase or Uruk vase is a slim carved alabaster vessel found in a temple complex in the ruins of the ancient city of Uruk, located in the modern Al Muthanna Governorate, in southern Iraq. Like the Uruk Trough, Mask of Warka, and the Narmer Palette from Egypt, it is one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture, found, no in situ, in a layer dated to c. 3100–2900 BC. Simple relief sculpture is also known from much earlier periods, from the site of Göbekli Tepe, dating to circa 9000 BC.

## Sources

- [Warka Vase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warka_Vase) - Wikipedia

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Canonical: https://recap.at/3200/wararka-vase