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successor the kingdom of Ur disintegrated, this Jacobsen, The Gimilsin Temple and the Palace of the
temple was secularized and became part of the Rulers at Tell Asmar (Chicago, 1940). 206-14 and
adjoining palace of the ruler of Eshnunna. figures 108-22. The interpretation of these ob-
19. The continuity of the architectural tradition jccts lias a^so bccn discussed there,
r- 53
of Mesopotamia (which has often been doubted) 28. Clay lions, two to three feet high, were
appears when one compares the temple we have found at Tell Harmal and Khafajc Mound D.
just described with that built later by a ICassitc Bronze lions with inlaid eyes were found at Mari
king at Ur [Antiquaries*Journal, v (i925)»373if1gure il1 thc DaSa11 tcmPlc (SYria XIX> ^38» Platc x)-
4). Here, too, one passes through a towered cn- They probably stood on thc blocks of masonry
trance into a lobby, and hence into thc central flanking thc entrance (op. cit., figure 13 and plate
court. Thc main cclla is on thc right, as in thc old ix).
shrines with a bent axis approach; but there is 29. It is not entirely isolated. A statue in Brussels
another cclla straight in front, as at Tell Asmar- (Contenau, Manuel, 798, figure 557), a head from
Eshnunna. It is peculiar that thc door has been Tell Asmar (Frankfort, More Sculpture, plate 73,
shifted to one side, so that there is no axial arrange- no. 334), and perhaps a head from Mari (Syria,
ment of thc main features. xix (1938). p^te viii) belong to this group of
P. 54 20. Dclougaz and Lloyd, Presargonid Temples of works, which strike us as archaizing.
thc Diyala Region (Chicago, 1942), plates 22 and 23, 30. They were carried off as booty to Susa, where p. 58
c and d; 186, figure 146; 202, figure 162. they were excavated. (Contenau, Manuel, 801-3,
p. 55 21. Other temples of this period have been found figures 559-61.)
at Mari; see Syria, xix (1938), 21-7; xx (1939), 31. Andrac, Das wiedcrcrstehende Assur (Leipzig,
4-14; xxi (1940). 1-24* The great palace of Zim- 1938), 88 and plate 44.
rilim at Mari, covering an area of 650 by 200 feet 32> a stele in thc Louvre depicting a defeat of p. 59
(Syria xvn (1936), 14-31; xvm (i937)> 65-S4; enemies refers perhaps to a victory of Hammurabi,
xlx (1938), 8-21; xx (1939), 14-22), can best be but this is not certain. It is an undistinguished work
understood as thc combination of a series of (Contenau, Manuel, 837, figure 596).
architectural blocks. Thc function of some of thc 33. L. W. King, A History of Babylon, 96.
main rooms, explained by Parrot as shrines, can be 34. See H. A. Grocncwegen-Frankfort, Arrest and
better understood in terms of royal functions. At
the far side of thc main court is a deep audience Movement, 168 ff.
hall (no. 132), with not only religious but also 35. Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, 1, 23.
warlike scenes painted behind thc throne base. Thc 36. James B. Pritchard (Editor), Ancient Near
square court 106, like that at Tell Asmar, and later Eastern Texts relating to thc Old Testament (Princc-
at Khorsabad, is flanked by a throne-room (64) ton, I95°)> *64.
and a Great Hall, here probably open to the sky (65) 37. This figure has a companion piece which p. 60
with a shrine (66) at one side. See note 46 below. The served, perhaps, as a stand upon which offerings
outer wall of thc palace lacks buttresses and recesses, were placed. Three ibexes, reared up and with their
22. For an Akkadian city, see Frankfort, Iraq horns interlocked, are placed on a base fitted, again,
Excavationsof the Oriental Institute, 1932133 (Chicago, with a small cup or basin, which is here supported
1934), 1-46. For thc end of the third millennium ty two goddesses. Thc faces of thc goats arc ren-
Woolley’s report in Antiquaries* Journal, xi (1931), dered in gold foil (Encyclopcdie photographique de
359 ff. Vart, I, 261).
23. Op. cit., plate xliv, 1. 38. Frankfort, More Sculpture, plates 79-Si.
24. Ibid., plates \-\ii, Antiquaries* Journal, vi (1926), 39. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, plate xxvi(k).
plates li-lii. 40. Encyclopcdie photographique de Part, 1, 24S-9.
P.56 25. It is now in thc collection of Colonel Nor- 41. Syria, xvm (1937), plate xxxviii (2), and 352, p. 61
man Colvillc. See Archiv fur Orientforschung, xn, figure 14.
128 ff.
42. Andrac, Coloured Ceramics from Assur, plate 8.
P- 57 26. See Archiv fiir Orientforschung, ix, 165-71; 43. Syria, xvm (1937), plate xh (2).
Jonrna of Near Eastern Studies, in (1944), 198-200. 44. It has been studied, and ingeniously inter-
27 E. Douglas van Buren, Clay Figurines of preted, by Maric-Thc'r£sc Barrelet, in Studia
Babylonia and Assyria (New Haven, 1930). Thc only Mariana (Leiden, 1950) . 9-35.
series of dated types is in Frankfort, Lloyd, and
45. An alternative source would be scarabs from
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