Lion Head
Iraq, c. 2650-2550 B.C.
Silver, lapis lazuli, and shell
11 x 12 cm
Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
UNITED STATES
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS • The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University • Ongoing
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This traveling exhibition of Sumerian material from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology showcases 425 objects excavated at the site of Ur, the Biblical homeland of Abraham in southern Iraq. In the late 1920s, Leonard Woolley discovered a cemetery here consisting of more than 1,800 graves dating to the second half of the third millennium B.C.
These tombs contained some of the most historically valuable examples of Sumerian art in the form of personal items such as weapons, jewelry, gaming boards, cosmetic containers, and stone and metal vessels, as well as the human remains of attendants, guards, and musicians that were sealed in the tombs along with the primary occupants.
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur Web Site
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