[From: Woolley, Leonard. The Art of The Middle East, including Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine. New York: Crown Publishers. 1961.]
1.Geography and History --- 2.Elam --- 3.Sumer --- 4.Sumer and Akkad --- 5.Syria & Palestine --- 6.Hurri & Hittites --- 7.Anatolia
Chapter Three [Notes]
1. These bricks were almost exclusively sun-baked and unfired.
2. Although the columns were found near the relief some authorities have recently challenged the accuracy of this description [even in the British Museum it is still shown this way]. Owing to the author's death it has not been possible to clarify this point. [Publisher's note].
3. Dr. Henri Frankfort, the discoverer of the statues, thinks that the two largest figures are those of a god and a goddess and that their grotesquely big eyes are an attribute of divinity. I cannot believe that gods would be represented in the conventional attitude of adoration, and regard the figures as those of worshippers, perhaps richer and more important than the rest. The divine symbol carved on the base of the male figure I take to be a dedication, not a description of the statue.
[Woolley, Leonard. The Art of The Middle East, including Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine. New York: Crown Publishers. 1961.]
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