[2] Karaindaš’ own eleven-line Sumerian inscriptions[3][i 2] adorn bricks from the Temple dedicated to the goddess Inanna, in Uruk, where he commissioned the spectacular façade pictured.

It is 205 cm high and would originally have been constructed from around five hundred pre-formed baked bricks, which were set in recessed socles, depicting both male and female deities holding water jugs.

The bearded males wear horned flat caps and double streams of water flow symmetrically to frame the niches.

[5] The temple to Inanna was originally located in a courtyard of the Eanna, or “House of Heaven”, precinct of Uruk[6] and stood until the Seleucid era.

[16] A brown agate cylinder seal (pictured), which is in the University Museum in Philadelphia, is inscribed “Oh [Shuqamuna], lord who advances in brilliance by your fullness … your light is indeed favourable: Izkur-Marduk, son of Karaindaš, who prays to you and reveres you.”[17][i 5] Shuqamuna was a Kassite male god symbolized by a bird on a perch often accompanied by his consort, Shumaliya, associated with the investiture of kings.