–– Kathleen McCaffrey ––Figure 11.3Side B of the Stele of the Vultures, diagrammed to illustrate size-rank hierarchy and
gravitation toward the center. Girsu, c. 2450 BC(reconstruction drawing by Elizabeth Simpson,
originally published in After the Battle is Over: The Stele of the Vultures and the Beginning of
Historical Narrative in the Art of the Ancient Near East, in Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the
Middle Ages, eds. H. Kessler and M. S. Simpson, Washington, Hanover and London: University
Press of New England, pp. 11 – 32. Courtesy Irene Winter)