. Discovery. Science. Fig. 'U, VIEW OF E-XUN-MAKH, IK : 1953. By courtesy of ihc British Museum. Sumerian period (about 3000 ) : lions and small bulls'of copper with bitumen within (like the figure of Bel in the Book of Daniel, that was " brass without and clay within "), a copper relief, 8 ft. long, of a lion-headed eagle (the emblem of the city of Lagash) grasping two stags by their tails, a gold bull's-horn, a stone figure (torso) with a very archaic inscription commemorating a certain Kur-lil, keeper of the granary of the city of Erech, a squatting stone figure (comp
. Discovery. Science. Fig. 'U, VIEW OF E-XUN-MAKH, IK : 1953. By courtesy of ihc British Museum. Sumerian period (about 3000 ) : lions and small bulls'of copper with bitumen within (like the figure of Bel in the Book of Daniel, that was " brass without and clay within "), a copper relief, 8 ft. long, of a lion-headed eagle (the emblem of the city of Lagash) grasping two stags by their tails, a gold bull's-horn, a stone figure (torso) with a very archaic inscription commemorating a certain Kur-lil, keeper of the granary of the city of Erech, a squatting stone figure (complete), probably of the same person and certainly of the same period (Fig. 3); besides various other antiquities, such as pottery, flower-decoration for walls with stone petals fastened by copper wire ; all of the same period, and forming an important addition to our black and occasionalh' in red. This pottery is iden- tical with that found by Pezard at Bushire recently, and is related to that discovered by de Morgan at Susa and Tepe Musyan in Persia and that found by Herzfeld at Samarra in 'Irak. It has been described and illustrated by Thompson in his publication of the work of 1918 at Shahrein in Archceologia, vol. Ixx, 1920, and by Hall in the Journal of Egyptian Archce- ology, vol. viii, 1922. It is found also at Ur here and there. This style of pottery-decoration of the primitive period is found in Turkestan, at Anau 1 Tlie Sumerian civilisation in Mesopotamia is a less known but even earlier civilisation than that of the ancient E9;>ji- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London [etc. ] Professional and Industrial Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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