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A Sumerian Representation of an Indian Stand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Ernest Mackay
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In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1930 Professor Langdon illustrates (Pl. IX, Fig. 4) a curious pottery stand found at Hursagkalamma, Kish. This, he states, is only found below the flood stratum down to waterlevel, i.e. prior to 3,200 B.C., according to his dating; and it may possibly be the niḳnaḳḳu of Babylonian ritual which was in common use, according to the texts, right down to the Persian Period. During my work at Kish I found a similar stand—now in the Field Museum, Chicago—in the same area of the site. These stands which average 2½ feet in height are shaped rather like an hour-glass, and are open throughout at the topand base. Moreover, they are ornamented with triangular incisions which sometimes pierce the side entirely, sometimes only partially so.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , April 1933 , pp. 335 - 338
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1933

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page 335 note 1 This is unfortunately not a very good example as it is bound in comparatively few places.

page 336 note 1 Morgan, , La Préhistoire Orientale, t. ii, p. 284, fig. 328Google Scholar; p. 285, figs. 329, 330.