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‘Tell-ing Eyes’ of Sumer
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A TELL is an artificial mound built of debris left from an earlier habitation.1 ‘Tell Asmar’ is an ancient mound located in the Diyala plain of Iraq, with important deposits of the Mesopotamian civilisation (2700BC).2 Among other things it contained statuettes made of marble and clay, of different sizes representing in order of height, gods and …