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The two figures with baskets on their heads for instance are they bringing funeral offerings, or covering with earth the heaped-up corpses on which they mount? LAYARD, Monuments, 1st series, plates 14, 21, 26, 57, 64, &c. We may also refer to the curious monument from Tell-lôh, in which vultures carrying off human heads and limbs in the clouds are represented.
In this temple, Gudea and other rulers place colossal statues of themselves, but temper the vanity implied, by inscribing on the front and back of these statues, an expression of their devotion to their god. To Nin-girsu, most of the objects found at Tell-loh are dedicated; conspicuous among which are the many clay cones, that became the conventional objects for votive offerings.
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