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Napir-Asu

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== Napir Asu == Elamite queen and wife of King Untash-Napirisha represented in a mutilated copper and bronze statue widely regarded as a masterpiece of ancient metalwork. The sculpture provides one of the finest surviving representations of elite garments from antiquity and constitutes one of the rare extant depictions of a royal queen.

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== Napir Asu == Elamite queen and wife of King Untash-Napirisha represented in a mutilated copper and bronze statue widely regarded as a masterpiece of ancient metalwork. The sculpture provides one of the finest surviving representations of elite garments from antiquity and constitutes one of the rare extant depictions of a royal queen.

== Biography == It is likely that Napir-Asu corresponds to the daughter of the Babylonian Burnaburiash (perhaps the king Burna-Buraish II) married by Untash-Napirisha. A statue of the god Immiriya in Chogha Zanbil was dedicated by Napir-Asu's husband Untash-Napirisha to his father-in-law Burnaburiash. There is a letter that has survived which describes Untash-Napirisha marrying a daughter of a Burna-Buraish. However there is some debate as to whether the Burna-Burnish in the letter is in fact the king, or a later descendant.

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