Before his family moved to Haran, Abraham lived in Ur, a Sumerian city. This painting imagines him looking like a member of the culture that he arose from.

Sumerians, the “black-headed ones,” wore skirts of leaves or grasses. After all, their environment was hot and humid, and air flow was important. I am sure that, after he went on the road as a nomadic pastoral warrior-patriarch, Abraham started wearing the woolen robes we are accustomed to seeing. Probably some armor as well, which we are not accustomed to seeing, but it would make a great painting too.

The Sumerians also portrayed themselves as wearing Southeast-Asian-style, cone-shaped hats, but this is a shot of Abraham indoors.