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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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.
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.
