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P. 42 6. Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology
Liverpool, xix (1932), plate L; Andrac . not always shown with rays emerging from his
was the shoulders.
first who recognized the head as Akkadian.
P* 43 7- Other 1 leads of this period arc Contenau, 17. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, 70 IF., ii9-20. p.
Manuel, 6S5, figures 474-5; Bulletin of the Fom 18. Op ctt., 124-7, to which must be added
Museum of Art, Harvard University, ix (1939), 13-18; Analecta Orientalia, xxi (Rome, 1940), no. 14.
oflcsscr quality: Frankfort, More Sculpture, plate 72!
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8. For example Contenau, Manuel, 673, figures
467~8’ ’*Thc orig>»al publications arc E. dc Sarzee, P 47
9- On this stele, see Grocncwcgcn-Frankfort, Dccouvcrtes cn Chaldee (Paris, 1884-1912); Gaston
Arrest and Movement, 163 f. " Cros, Nouvclles Fouilles dc Tcllo (Paris, 1910-14).
10. This is rarely the ease in Mesopotamia. See l!rh’,CXCav??>r,I,as Published his results to-
Frankfort, Kingship and the Cods, chapter 21. * ] * C?“Ca! S.tl'dy of,tllosc of llls prod*
rpi M , , , , , ccssors and a full bibliography: Andr<$ Parrot
11. ic term landscape has been loosely, and Tcllo, vingt campagncs dc fouilles {1SS7I1933) (Paris’
wrongly used whenever a tree, or plant, or a wavy I948). The texts of Gudea have been translated by
ground line is found in ancient art. But it is F. Thurcau-Dangin, Lcs inscriptions dc Sumer ct
applicable to the stele of Naramsin, where a d* Akkad (Paris, 1905) {Die Smwrisch-Akkadischen
coherent rendering of the scene of action is given. Konigsinschriftcn, Leipzig, 1907). Recent discoveries
12. Essad Nassoulii in Revue dyAssyriologic, xxi suggest that Gudea’s reign overlapped with that
(1924), 65 ff.; Contenau, Manuel, 666 ff. of Umammu (Orientalia, N.S. xxm, Rome 1954,
13. C. J. Edmonds, in Geographical Journal, lxv 6, n. 3).
(r925)> 63 A7* Cf. Sidney Smith, Early History of 2. Contenau, Manuel, figure 465. It is too badly
Assyria (London, 1928), 96 ff. and figure 9. damaged to be illustrated here.
Another stele of Naramsin, found near Diarbekr and 3. Parrot, Tello, plate xiv(d) shows these insrru- p. 4S
now in Istanbul, is lost but for a single fragment ments carved in relief upon the drawing-board,
which shows the upper part of the king’s figure 4. Statue L.
only: L. W. King, A I-Iistory of Sumer and Akkad,
5. Translated by Professor Thorkild Jacobsen. p. 49
245, figure 59-
6. hi Istanbul. See Parrot, Tello, 197, figure
P- 44 14. The hero has his left arm round the lion’s 42(c).
neck and his right arm round the beast’s belly.
7. Museum Journal, xviii (Philadelphia, 1927), 76.
He presses his knee against its back, squeezing the
breath out of the body. The lion’s head is thrown 8. Parrot, Tello, figure 42; dc Sarzee, Difcouvertes
en Chaldee, 231 and plate 24, 3.
back so that it appears upside down, its ear over­
lapping with the hero’s wrist. A chipped place in 9. Parrot, Tcllo, figure 42H.
the cylinder surface somewhat obscures the upper 10. Ibid., plate xx(a).
part. Note, however, the detail with which the pads 11. E. Douglas van Buren in Iraq, I (i934)> 60-S9.
and claws arc rendered. The inscription on the right 12. Parrot, Tello, plate xxiii (b and c). p. 50
formed a panel, flanked on the other side by a re­ 13. Ibid., plate xxiii(a).
versed group of hero and lion. The whole design 14. Ibid., figure 44; E. Douglas van Buren,
was thus strictly symmetrical, but a narrow space Foundation Figurines and Offerings (Berlin, I931)-
on the cylinder surface was left over, and this was 15. See Sidney Smith, The Statue of Idrimi P. 51
filled by a clump of reeds, which appears on the
left of the fragment of which we reproduce an (London, I949)» 92 ff
16. H. Lenzen, Die Entwicklung der Zikurrat, 47 ft* P- 5'
enlargement.
17. The temples and other buildings found with­
15. E. Douglas van Buren, The Flowing Vase and
p. 45 in the sacred enclosure at Ur arc larger and more
the God with Streams (Berlin, 1933)- than those from Tell Asrnar and Ish-
16 This is a hypothesis; Egyptian texts testify complex thc units
the belief in a nightly journey of the sun
that commonly held, but there
was
Undcmeaf evidence for Mesopotamia. Parrot, in examples. For Ur, see Antiquaries* Journal, v (I925h
is no sue 117 if., supposes that the god in the 347-402; xrv (i934)» pJatc xl‘x-
Studia Mariana 18. When at the end of the reign of Gimilsin’s
hthonic deity, and it is true that he is
i boat was a c
340