Parrot, AndrePhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham2020-02-062020-02-061960WA-42http://hdl.handle.net/1885/201421Khafaje votive plaque (above) showing banquet scene with man & woman as guests of honourthe middle band shows preparations for banquetand below is a chariotsome say such scenes represent the New Year's celebrations, when "sacred marriage" rites were performed to ensure fertility of the soil. Telloh plaque, partly mythological, shows a naked celebrant ofering libation to the goddess of the mountain. Al-'Ubaid plaque shows human-headed bull attacked by a lion-headed eagle, typical of four types of figures (grouped in pairs) - man and bull, eagle & lion - who play major roles in this art.35mmslideb&wen-AUMesopotamia : Eridu-'Ubaid period, Early Sumerian period, Fara-Ur I period, Imperial Akkadian periodsculpturestonebook scan2020-02-06This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.