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On the use of kal, “servant” in the Sumerian texts, see Reisner, Tempelurkunden aus Telloh, pp.

Numerous bronze images of a kneeling god at Telloh give him only a loin-cloth, and often the deity, like the monarch, has only a skirt.

His interest in arch�ology led him to investigate some of the mounds in the neighborhood, and he soon began work at one called Telloh.

Various places are mentioned: Sippara, Abu Habba, Senkereh, Telloh, Warka, have all been stated to be the place of discovery.

Interesting as they are for the class of offerings, for the names of offerers, or of priests, and for the cult of particular gods, or the localities near Telloh and Nippur, and often containing valuable hints for the history and chronology of those times, they do not give us the same insight into the daily life of the people that the longer legal documents do, in later periods.