This blue stone, imported from Afghanistan, makes up most of the space around the figures in the Standard or Ur.

There are 3500 lines of this style of writing inscribed into the very hard rock of Hammurabi's stele.

Political system in Sumerian city states (deity at top.)

The statuettes found buried in a temple at Eshnunna have very small hands but very large this.

The function performed by Lamassu as they stood at palace gates.

This is used to show that the priest king is the most important figure on both sides of the Standard of Ur.

At the top of the stele, Hammurabi receives symbols of authority from this god.

These stepped, flat-topped pyramids raised the Sumerian temple high above city-states like Uruk.

This is a type of object that is offered in fullfillment of a vow.

The number of legs that a Lamassu has.

The excavator, Leonard Wooley, thought the Standard of Ur as carried into battle. It has also been suggested that it was part of one of these.

The largest section of law on the stele deals with this aspect of life.

Sumerian writing was first used for the accounting of this, which was stored and dispensed at the temple.

The number of statuettes that were found buried together at Eshnunna.

A Lamassu has the wings and the head of a man on the body of which animal?

On the Standard of Ur, the torsos of the figures are shown frontally but the faces in profile, a perpective called...

This pictorial device is explored in the angle of the throne and lines of the god's beard.

The White Temple of Uruk was likely dedicated to this god.

Inscribed on the back of some statuettes found in Sumerian temples.

This activity was compulsory for all Assirian men.

In the royal tombs at Ur, this instrument was found, and depicted on the "peace" side of the Standard.

The language used to write Hammurabi's code, so all could read it.

Orientation of White Temple, requiring multiple turns on the approach.

The objects held by many of these figures, which probably represent a libation ritual.

This happened to Dur Shurrukin in 2015.