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thc First Early Dynastic Period at Khafajc over 600 47. More Sculpture, plate 64B.
cups were found smashed, presumably after a feast 48. Contenau, Manuel, figure 357.
held in this sanctuary. 49. F. Thurcau-Dangin, Die Sumcrischcn und
26. Grocncwcgcn-Frankfort, Arrest and Move- Akkadischcn Konigsinschriften, 35,1.
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went, 24. 50. Witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants who
27. Sculpture, plates 33, 34- were prepared to swear by the gods were taken to
28 Sculpture, Frontispiece, plate 62(3-0). the temple and, in pronouncing the oath, pulled the
p. 26
29. Small figurines of copper representing men Shrine emblem from its socket^ This act unchained
p. 27
and women would also seem to belong to E.D. n; the force with which the sacred object was charged
in the Louvre (Contenau, Manuel, iv, figure wlllch w°uld dcstroythc PcrJ“rcr- Cases are on
one,
; Monuments Plot, xxxvn, 37 ff.) is, in fact, tecord in which parties recanted previous state-
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dressed and groomed like those of thc hoard from ments when faced with the necessity to repeat them
Tell Asmar (Figure 13). Others were found at Tell under oath. This explanation was given in lectures
Agrab (Frankfort, More Sculpture, plates 56-7). of Professor Thorkild Jacobsen at Chicago.
30. Frankfort, Sculpture of the Third Millennium, 51. It was observed at Ur that thc rein ring of p. 34
chariots drawn by oxen was embellished with thc
plate 115, no. 206.
figure of an ox, that of spans of onagers by the
31. This is a kind of wild ass not now domesti­
figure of a wild ass. By analogy the chariot on this
cated.
face of thc stele of Eannatum was drawn by lions,
p. 28 32. Encyclopedic photographique de Vart, 1, 204. which would mark it as the chariot of the god
33. Syria, xvi (1935), plates ix, xx, and xxiv. Ningirsu (cf. plate 45B).
34. W. Andrae, Die archaischen Ischtartcmpcl, 52. Syria, xvi (1935), plate xxviii; ibid., xxi
plates 30-1. (1940), plate vi, 4 (Mari). For similar inlays see
35. Frankfort, Sculpture, plates 52-3. Mackay, A Sumerian Palace ... at Kish, plates
p. 29 36. Thc earlier style, hitherto not found in xxxv-vi; Frankfort, Oriental Institute Discoveries in
regular excavations outside the Diyala region, has Iraq, 1933/34 (O.I.C. 19), figure 25.
recently been discovered at Nippur: Illustrated 53. At Tell Asmar these knives were part of a p. 35
London News, 28 June 1952, 10S7. service, and thus identified as knives, not daggers;
37. A cow’s head in copper found at Khafajc Frankfort, Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq,
represents thc earlier style; it is more ornamental 1932-33 (O.I.C. 7), 37 ff.
(Frankfort, op. cit., plate 104). 54. The linC on die lion’s left paw does not set
38. Hall and Woolley, Ur Excavations, 1, plate x. off the animal skin against the human wrist of its
39. Ibid., plates xxvii-xxx. wearer, but forms part of the conventional render-
p. 30 40. The object was crushed flat in the soil and thc ing °f animals; it recurs on the hind legs of the
excellent restoration has not done away with all wolf and thc donkey,
deformations. 55. L. Legrain, Ur Excavations, m (London,
p. 32 41. Dc Sarzec, Dicouvcrtes en Chaldee, plate 1 ter; 1936), plate 20, no. 384.
Encyclopedic photographique dc Vart, 1, 176. 56. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, 94, figure 30.
42. See G. Rachel Levy, ‘The Oriental Origin of 57. M. von Oppenheim, Tell Halaf (London,
Hcraklcs’, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, uv (1934), 1933), plate xxxviii.
40 ff; for thc hydra on seals see Frankfort, Cylinder
Seals, 71, 121 f.
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43- In Frankfort, Sculpture, plate 105, no. 125,
thc two figures face one another in the lowest 1. This is best traced by means of seals: Frankfort, p. 41
row. Cylinder Seals, 227-32.
p. 33 44. Odicrs were found at Tell Agrab (Frankfort, 2. M. Mallowan, in Iraq, ix (1947)-
More Sculpture, plate 65; plate 67, no. 327). Ex­ 3. Parrot, in Syria, xvi-xvn (1935-^)- Cf.
amples from Khafajc are Sculpture, plate 108, no. Revue d'assyriologie, xxxi (1934), 180 ft'.
188; plate 109, no. 192; from Fara and Susa, 4. W. Andrae, Die archaischen Ischtartynpel in
Sculpture, 45.
Assur (Leipzig, 1922).
45- Frankfort, More Sculpture, plate 62. 5. See B. Landsberger, ‘Die Eigcnbegrifflichkeit p. 42
46. Sculpture, plate 105. der Babylonischen Welt*, in Islamica, 11, 355-72.

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