One of the important discoveries of a statue dating back 5000 years in the city of Garsu (Telo)
Bao or Baba (in cuneiform: Dba-u2) is the protector goddess of the city of Lagash in ancient Mesopotamia. She later assumed the role of physician goddess, a role similar to other deities such as Kula, Ninisina, Ninkarak, and Nintinuga.
The meaning of the name Bao is unknown while its reading is uncertain and several possibilities have been suggested, including Bao, Baba, Bao and Babu. While the word "pope" is relatively common in literature, the evidence for and against is inconclusive. Edmund Sohlberger considered "bawa" to be the original form, with baba being the final pronunciation, while Maurice Lambert assumed that baba is the Akkadian reading and that as such in scholarship it should only be used in strictly Akkadian contexts. As for Richard Littke, he considered the word “bao” to be the most likely pronunciation.
One of the great pieces that I discovered with the British Museum team, which I studied in a master’s thesis and published in Al-Rafidain magazine, is the princess and the goddess Ba’u (Baba), who is the Sumerian goddess of wheat and goodness...
Fortunately, it is one of the rarest pieces, which are two pieces, one of which is in the Louvre Museum in France and the other is now in the Iraqi Museum...
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