"The clay envelope is Sumerian. It is from the third millennium B . C . It was dug up from the city of Eridu in southern Iraq. The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B . C . The tree-like structure is a Yahwistic cult totem from Palestine. It's called an asherah. It's from about 900 B . C ."