Question
The religious significance of this object is corroborated by the inscription on the base of a naturalistic statue of a standard-bearer found at Bassetki. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this object that, uniquely, indicates its living subject’s deification by his horned helmet. On this artwork, eight-pointed stars resembling the dingir symbol hover over a king stomping on the Lullubi people.
ANSWER: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin [or Naram-Sin’s stele; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] Naram-Sin’s grandfather Sargon depicted himself with one of these usually divine objects, which the kings of Umma and Lagash swore on to end the “hundred years’ war.” Retiarii gladiators wielded tridents and these tools.
ANSWER: battle-nets [accept the battle-net of Enlil, casting nets, or fishing nets]
[10m] A king of Lagash with this prefix in his name looms over his subjects in a kaunakes skirt in the “perforated relief.” This prefix appears in the name of the founder of the Third Dynasty, who created the world’s oldest law code.
ANSWER: Ur- [accept Ur-Nanshe or Ur-Nammu]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 15.33 | 93% | 40% | 20% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lisan al-Quib | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU B | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |