Parrot, AndrePhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham2020-02-062020-02-061960WA-78http://hdl.handle.net/1885/201459Usual layout in superimposed registers, but break with convention in the representation of figures. Instead of being grouped in the compact phalanx of the Sumerians, the Akkadian fighting men move in looser formations. Their arms and accoutrements are also different. They are more lightly clad and less hampered in their movementsarmed with bow and arrow, they must have been effective at long range.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.