Figure V.5. PLAQUE OF UR-NINA In Limestone. From the original in the Louvre, Paris, bas relief Source: Project Gutenberg, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. Mackenzie The picture is in black and white. This stone tablet in bas relief shows a number of smaller figures approaching two larger figures. The background of the tablet is covered in cuneiform writing. At the bottom corners, two busts look out. The one on the left is female, wearing a cap. The one on the right is male, and bald. Across the bottom of the tablet are four figures, each one slightly larger than the previous, perhaps to suggest perspectve. They are coming to a larger figure of a man, naked from the waist up. He faces them, holding a scroll in his left hand and his right hand, bent at the elbow, thumb up. To his right is another smaller figure holding a vase. Above the man is a floor with five figures standing on it, facing left toward the large figure of a woman who appears to be standing on a small platform just above the heads of the figures below her. The woman holds a sheaf of grain on her head, her left hand over her heart. In the middle of the tablet is a round hole.