This is a lousy off colour picture of the Warka vase, 3,500 B.C., it is about 1 metre high, and is in translucent green alabaster. It depicts the whole of the Sumerian world giving ritual thanks to the goddess Inanna. The bottom of the vase represents the reed marshes and the water world out of which all life comes, and works its way up in a spiral to the realm of the gods. Sorry I couldn't find a better picture. I hope someone stole it, and didn't smash it, maybe it can be recovered.here.yours, Peter T.