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  • Writer's pictureKatherine Liddy

Ur at the British Museum

Further illustration for the blog post Portal to Ur

Decorations from Temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, Iraq



Queen Puabi's Tomb


Lapis lazuli and agate beads with calf pendant, found by Puabi's right shoulder

A pin that may have helped secure her cloak


A reconstruction of the costume of one of Puabi's attendants, killed to be buried with her



Cosmetics bowl.







Musical Instruments

The bull-headed lyre

lyre frame

Ram in a Thicket

The Standard of Ur





Head of a Ewe


From the late Uruk period, 3300-3000 BCE

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