Illustrations List - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
Illustrations List
In this query is the list of illustrations intended for Chapter 3 that was originally provided by the author. Can you help us identify them, source them, figure out what their rights situations are (and if they are copyrighted, help us find similar open-source or public domain or creative commons alternatives), suggest a place to insert them in the chapter body if possible, and solve any of the queries about them inside the list below?
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Illustrations List for Chapter 3
3.1 Gudea statues F and B from the Louvre,Illustration QueryThese hints may help in identifying this image/these images. holding the rule and the temple plan. (Reproduced in A.E. Berriman, Historical Metrology [New York: 1953].)
3.2 Van Buren: “The Rod and the Ring,”[1] from Sumerian cylinder seals.
3.3 Ur-Nammu stela: The moon-god Nanna giving Ur-Nammu the measuring rod and line with which he is to determine the dimensions of the ziggurat. (reproduced in Van Buren 1945, 1949, and/or 1956).Specify CitationWe’re not sure which Van Buren text was meant.
3.4 Bevelled-rim bowl, and Sumerian sign meaning “to eat.”
- From Nissen 1988a[2]: Figure 33, p. 84.
- Nissen 1988b[3]Verify CitationCan you help us verify the year in this citation?: Figure 30, p. 123, Bevelled Rim Bowl and the sign-forms for KU2 “to eat.”Illustration QueryShould Illustration 3.4 be split into two images instead of one?
3.5 Mesopotamian weights from third-millennium BC Lagash: The earliest known weight (of Dudu, c. 2400 BC), and duck measure, etc. (reproduced in Berriman,[4] pp. 56, 8).
- A 29 kilogram octopus weight from Knossos, the capital of Crete, approximated the Bronze ingot weights from Hagia Triada (Palmer[5] 1963: p. 110).Illustration QueryIs a second illustration called for here that should be added to Chapter 3 body?
3.6 Guitel[6] 1975: sign for silver, like barley.Illustration QueryThere is no indication where in the chapter body this could go. What do you think about where Illustration 3.6 belongs?
3.7 Hammurapi’s legal stela, upper register depicting him receiving his laws from Shamash. (Louvre.) Ditto from Mari palace. From André Parrot,[7] “Les Peintures du palais de Mari” in Syria, Vol. 18 (1937): p. 336 (plate 39, figures 8–10).Illustration QueryThere was no indication in the chapter body of where Illustration 3.7 should go.
3.8 Painting from Old Kingdom Egypt, of “overseers weighing out quantities of material to the craftsmen and scribes noting down the amounts issued.” From V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 166.Illustration QueryThere was no indication in the chapter body of where Illustration 3.8 should go.
- ↑ E. Douglas van Buren, “The Rod and the Ring,” Archiv Orientalni, Vol. 17 (1949), pp. 434–450.
- ↑ Hans J. Nissen, The Early History of the Ancient Near East: 9000–2000 BC (Chicago: 1988a), Figure 33, p. 84.
- ↑ Hans J. Nissen, Mesopotamia Before 5000 Years (Rome: 1988b),Verify CitationCan you help us verify the year in this citation? Figure 30, p. 123.
- ↑ A.E. Berriman, Historical Metrology (New York: 1953), pp. 56, 8.
- ↑ Leonard R. Palmer, Mycenaeans and Minoans: Aegean Prehistory in the Light of the Linear B Tablets (New York: 1963), p. 110.
- ↑ Geneviève Guitel, Histoire Comparée des Numérations Écrites (Paris: 1975), see esp. pp. 328f.
- ↑ André Parrot, Tello (Paris: 1948).
