Archaeology Odyssey

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.89.3.

Herodotus, Histories 9.13.

Herodotus, Histories 8.53.

R. de Mecquenem, Mémoires de la mission archéologique en Iran, vol. 29 (1943), pp. 103–104, figs. 72 and 79; Amiet, Elam, pp. 135–136, fig. 106.

Henri Frankfort, Progress of the Work of the Oriental Institute in Iraq, 1934–35. Fifth Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Communications, no. 20 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1936), pp. 62 and 65, pls. 50–51; Pinhas Delougaz, Pottery from the Diyala Region, The Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 63 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1952), pp. 70–72, pl. 138.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How Writing Came About (Austin: The University of Texas, 1996); and Before Writing (Austin: The University of Texas, 1992).

Dominique Collon, Ancient Near Eastern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 45.

Annie Caubet and Patrick Pouyssegur, The Origin of Civilization, The Ancient Near East (Paris: Editions Pierre Terrail, 1997), pp. 40–41.

Michael Roaf, Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia (Oxford: Equinox, 1990), p. 38.

Namio Egami, Telul eth Thalathat: The Excavations of Tell II 1956–1957, The Tokyo University Iraq-Iran Expedition, Report 1 (Tokyo: The Yamakawa Publishing Co., 1959), pl. 6.