Analytic: Shell Inlay is Pinctada margaritifera according to David Reese     
Description (Catalog Card): [A] Bull's head. Gold, with lapis hair between the horns and a lapis beard set in silver; the gold horns are tipped with lapis. [B]The body was of wood (see Field Notes) and down the front are [C] shell plaques with engraved mythological scenes     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 789     
Measurement (Catalog Card): Width across horns 025     
U Number: 10556C     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Plaques/Reliefs      
Object Type: Games and Music >> Harps and Lyres      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Popular Name: Bull headed Lyre     
Description (Modern): Shell plaques for the front of the harp. Four scenes, one on top of the other. Bottom shows a scorpion man being served by an antelope, ontop are two animals playing a bull headed harp that references this object. On top of this is a lion and lioness preparing food, and the top is a wild man holding two bulls with human faces.      
Material: Organic Remains >> Shell      
Material: Organic Remains >> Bitumen      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17684     

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/789 Woolley called this the 'King's Grave' because of its elaborate death pit that included many weapons. The main chamber, however, had been looted, leaving only a few scattered remains. The death pit contained the remains of more than 60 people, six of whom wore helmets and stood at the dromos/entrance as if to guard it. (none)
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Media: 10556C Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus 2003 Aruz, Joan and Ronald Wallenfeis (none)
de Schauensee, Maude. 2002. Two Lyres from Ur. University of Pennsylvania Press: Pennsylvania de Schauensee, Maude. 2002. Two Lyres from Ur. University of Pennsylvania Press: Pennsylvania (none) (none) (none)
Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2004 Quick, Jennifer and Deborah I. Olszewski (none)
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur 1998 Zettler, Richard and Lee Horne (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:46 Page:23 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:46 Page:23 (none)
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