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Essa trae il nome da degli avvoltoi rappresentati in una delle diverse scene di battaglia che raffigura, assieme a scene religiose. La [[stele]] fu inizialmente scolpita su un unico blocco di pietra calcarea, sebbene oggigiorno sono noti solo sette frammenti, attualmente esposti al [[Musée du Louvre|Louvre]].

==ScopertaLa scoperta==

I primi tre frammenti furono ritrovati durante degli scavi a [[Girsu|TulloTelloh]] (l'antica Girsu) nel sud dell'[[Iraq]] neinel primi anni del 18801881 dall'archeologo francese [[:en:Ernest de Sarzec]] at the archaeological site of [[Girsu|Tello]],Ernest ancientde Girsu, in what is today southern [[IraqSarzec]]. AnotherAltri threetre fragmentsframmenti cameemersero todurante lightgli duringscavi thedel excavations of 1888–18891888-1889. AUn seventhsettimo fragmentframmento thatche waspiù latertardi determinedfu to be part of the Stele of the Vultures and thought to havericonosciuto come fromparte Tellodella wasstele acquiredsu onacquistato thesul antiquitiesmercato marketdelle byantichità thedal [[British Museum]] innel 1898. Whilee, twodopo initialdue requests to hand this fragmentrifiuti, overdefinitivamente toconsegnato theal [[Musée du Louvre|Louvre]] were denied by the British Museum, it was eventually given to the Louvre innel 1932 soal thatfine itdi couldricostituire bela incorporatedmassima inparte thepossibile reconstructeddella stele together with the other fragments.<ref namenome=barrelet>{{citecita journalnews |last1 cognome=Barrelet |first1nome=Marie-Thérèse |yearanno=1970 |titletitolo=Peut-On Remettre en Question la "Restitution Matérielle de la Stèle des Vautours"? |journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies |volume=29 |issuenumero=4 |pagespagine=233–258 |jstor=543336 |languagelingua=French }}</ref>

==TheLa stele==

The complete monument, as reconstructed and now in display in the Louvre, would have been {{convert|1.80|m}} high, {{convert|1.30|m}} wide and {{convert|0.11|m}} thick and had a rounded top. It was made out of a single slab of [[limestone]] with carved reliefs on both sides.<ref name=winter>{{cite book |last1=Winter |first1=Irene J. |editor1-first=Herbert L. |editor1-last=Kessler |editor2-first=Marianna Shreve |editor2-last=Simpson |title=Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the Middle Ages |series=Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Series IV |volume=16 |year=1985 |publisher=National Gallery of Art |___location=Washington DC |issn=0091-7338 |pages=11–32 |chapter=After the Battle is Over: The 'Stele of the Vultures' and the Beginning of Historical Narrative in the Art of the Ancient Near East }}</ref> The stele can be placed in a tradition of mid- to late-third millennium BC southern [[Mesopotamia]] in which military victories are celebrated on stone monuments. A similar monument is the Victory Stele of [[Naram-Sin of Akkad|Naram-Sin]], created during the [[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian period]] that followed on the Early Dynastic III period.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ancient Mesopotamia. The Eden that Never Was |last=Pollock |first=Susan |year=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |___location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-57568-3 |series=Case Studies in Early Societies |page=181}}</ref>