SUMERIAN TECHNOLOGY—BOBULA 661 
Ficure 36.—‘Migration scene,” on seal of king of Uruk, in Sargon’s age. Men wore boots 
when they had to migrate. 
statuary has transmitted to posterity the carefully carved curls of 
baby lambs on these early specimens of headwear, from which many 
later shapes developed. The archaic, original form of this sheepskin 
cap is still worn unchanged by peoples of Eurasia, who inherited or 
borrowed customs from the Sumerian civilization. Heuzey (1888) 
calls the hat one of the important Sumerian inventions. 
It seems that the men of the army, when going to war, wore a 
special coat. made of spotted leopard skin. This military garment is 
clearly visible on the Standard of Ur. Leather was probably used 
for archaic kilts, belts, headdresses, and footwear. 
Leather perishes in the course of millennia, but many written ref- 
erences to leather objects surive. Leatherworkers are often enumer- 
ated in the lists of craftsmen such as the long list given by Dr. Anna 
Schneider (1920) in her book on the Sumerian temple city. Statues 
of kings, usually destined to stand in temples, are as a rule barefoot, 
in pious humility, but boots are sometimes apparent on cylinder 
seals. 
Wool, another animal product, was certainly used by the Sumer- 
ians. We know of many references to wool being shorn, transported, 
Ficure 37.—F allow deer, engraved on shell plaque. 
