From Baghdad To New York
Iraq as Iraqis see it and love it.

Have a look at this beautiful Sumerian piece of art depicting the three different social classes that were recognised in the community at that time…The Layer at the top of the Pyramid or the (Upper Class) represents the nobles, priests, government officials and warriors…The (Middle Class), or the layer in the middle represents the merchants, traders and artisans…The (Lower Class) constituted the majority of population, containing serfs and slaves that were responsible for all manual labor.

Please check out this site…. you will find an interactive depiction of this sculpture (The Peace Side), so you can click on the different parts of the drawings to see a bigger (magnificated) portion of the sculpture….Furthermore, you will see an arrow at the bottom right corner of the sculpture, you can click on that to see the back of it (The War Side)… you can also see different magnificated portions of that side as well…The Peace Side represents the Sumerian Society and its three divisions of social classes (Upper, Middle, Lower)….The War Side represents the different classes of the Sumerian Army (Chariots, Soldiers, Warriors)….Here are pictures of the two sides…