Note 205 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 2)
Walter Armstrong translation
It has been thought that the inscriptions contain proof, that, during the period, to which this primitive art belongs, Sirtella was the capital of a small independent kingdom, while the title of Gudea (patési, or governor) would seem to show that in his time it formed part of a larger state. Gudea can only have been a great feudatory; his position must have been similar to the nome princes in Egypt. Heuzey, in the Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions for 18 August, 1882.