From the May 2, 1931, issue

HOLDER OF PRIESTLY OFFICE CARVED ABOUT 2400 B.C.

Good sculptors, those Sumarians who lived in the land around about Ur of the Chaldees 4,000 years ago!

This weeks cover picture shows the upper portion of a broken life-sized statue found at the city of Lagash, north of Ur. The features, finely cut, portray a man of dignity and reserve.