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A lamp named for the Sumerian goddess of weaving
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The workUttu's Death (Sanad Khoury, plazuli), on the Dutch Design Week 2026 programme ddw.nlResearch cited
- ETCSL c.5.3.2 etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk
Images, slide by slide
- Slide 1
- A tall lamp of metal mesh bands and a glowing vertical tube, about two metres high, in a dark room, with a woman crouching beside its basePhoto: Sara OlleMuseum or journal record
- Slide 2
- Diagram: the source of the nameImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against ETCSL, Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (University of Oxford), c.5.3.2 lines 1-11; Dutch Design Week press kit 2567
- Slide 3
- Detail of the lamp in shadow: twisted metal mesh ribbons and perforated bands spiral around a lit tubePhoto: Sara OlleMuseum or journal record
- Slide 4
- The full lamp unlit against a pale gray wall in black and white, its mesh bands and ribbons stacked like a standing figurePhoto: Sara OlleMuseum or journal record