Missing Illustration - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
Missing Illustration
Quoted text:
Depictions of Mesopotamian investiture rituals show the order-deity presenting the coiled-up measuring rope to the ruler. It looks like a ring as on Ur-Nammu’s stela c. 2100 BC, whose usual interpretation is that the moon-god Nanna is handing Ur-Nammu the rod and ring to enable him to build a temple (Illustration 3.3).
Can you help us find this illustration or something like it? According to the author’s Illustrations list, the description of the image is:
“Ur-Nammu stele: The moon-god Nanna giving Ur-Nammu the measuring rod and line with which he is to determine the dimensions of the ziggurat” and it is “reproduced in Van Buren 1945, 1949, and/or 1956 [we’re not sure which text of hers].”
These may be helpful if the former is not public domain/creative commons: Wikipedia on the rod-and-ring symbol and Wikipedia on Ur-Nammu.
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