A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . Fig. 35. Fig. 36. heads of archaic male figubes fbom ashub and tello. A marked feature of both heads is the shaven scalp, exhibiting a characteristicSumerian practice. Fig. 35 is from Ashur, Fig. 36 from Tello.[After , No. 54, p. 12, and De Sarzec, Dicouvertes en Chaldie, pi. 6, No. 1.] bearded, the Sumerian practice of shaving the headwas evidently in vogue. In other limestone figures, ofwhich the bodies have been preserved, the treatmentof the garments corresponds precisely to that in archaicSumerian s
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . Fig. 35. Fig. 36. heads of archaic male figubes fbom ashub and tello. A marked feature of both heads is the shaven scalp, exhibiting a characteristicSumerian practice. Fig. 35 is from Ashur, Fig. 36 from Tello.[After , No. 54, p. 12, and De Sarzec, Dicouvertes en Chaldie, pi. 6, No. 1.] bearded, the Sumerian practice of shaving the headwas evidently in vogue. In other limestone figures, ofwhich the bodies have been preserved, the treatmentof the garments corresponds precisely to that in archaicSumerian sculpture. The figures wear the same roughwoollen garments, and the conventionalized treatmentof the separate flocks of wool is identical in both sets ofexamples.^ The evidence is not yet fully published,but, so far as it is available, it suggests that theSumerians, whose presence has hitherto been tracedonly upon sites in Southern Babylonia, were also at avery early period in occupation of Assyria. ^ See Fig. 34. - See Figs. 35 and 36. ^ See p. 140, Figs. 37-39. THE WESTERN SEM
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