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The first great Mesopotamian empire, the Akkadian Empire of Sargon of Akkad, began using diorite for sculpture after sources of the rock came under Akkadian control. Diorite was used to depict rulers or high officials in ceremonial poses or attitudes of prayer, and the sculptures may have been designed to receive funerary offerings. [37]
Diorite had already been used by old Sumerian rulers (Statue of Entemena). According to the inscriptions, the diorite (Sumerian: na4 esi, 'diorite or gabbro') came from Magan. The remnants of a very large diorite statue in the British Museum may be a representation of Gudea, but this cannot be determined with certainty. What remains of the ...
Gudea (Sumerian: 𒅗𒌤𒀀, Gu 3-de 2-a) was a Sumerian ruler of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia, who ruled c. 2080 –2060 BC (short chronology) or 2144–2124 BC (middle chronology).
Khafre Enthroned is a Ka statue of the Pharaoh Khafre, who reigned during the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.It is now located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.The construction is made of anorthosite gneiss, a valuable, extremely hard, and dark stone brought 400 miles down the Nile River from royal quarries. [1]
Diorite statue of Gudea, prince of Lagash, dedicated to the god Ningishzida,; 2120 BC (the Neo-Sumerian period); height: 46 cm, width: 33 cm, depth: 22.5 cm Gudea of Lagash was famous for his numerous portrait sculptures that have been recovered throughout Iraq.
The Manishtushu "standard inscription" is known from at least eight exemplars, statue fragments found at Nippur (CBS 19925), Sippar (BM 56630 and BM 56631), Susa (SB 51 and SB 15566), and Khafajah (KH II 162) as well as Old Babylonian tablet copies of Manishtushu inscriptions found at Nippur (CBS 13972 and NI 3200) and Ur (U 7725):
English: Statue of a seated goddess, Bau (Nintinugga), from the Ningal Complex (Giparu, also called E-gig-par, or gig-par-ku) at the city of Ur, Iraq. Isin-Larsa period, c. 1800 BCE. Black diorite. Bau was the consort of the god Ninurta and the goddess of healing. On display the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. U 6779B, IM 18663.
This is supported with the 1895 find of a black diorite statue, representing Serapis in his Apis bull incarnation with the sun disk between his horns; an inscription dates it to the reign of Hadrian (117–138). It has also been suggested that there was worship of the goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom Isis. [1]