This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts.
Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
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Southern Mesopotamia has long been recognized as the "cradle of civilization." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
from the royal tombs, death pit, royal cemetery, shell plaques, steatite vessels, tomb chamber, lapis beads, rein ring, pouring vessels, modern impression, pit floor, seal inscribed, red limestone, cylinder seals, administrative texts, carnelian beads, drinking tube, stone vessels, metal vessels, top register, combat scene, wardrobe chest, sound box, royal inscriptions, gaming board Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Death Pit, British Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives, Sumerian King List, University Museum, Great Lyre, Jamdat Nasr, King's Grave, Trial Trench, Leonard Woolley, Persian Gulf, Seal Impression Strata, The Death of Gilgamesh, Tell Asmar, World War, Central Asia, Indus Valley, Iraq Museum, Queen Puabi, Tell Abu Shahrain, Dynasty of Akkad, Gold Din, Near East, Port Said New!
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Southern Mesopotamia has long been recognized as the "cradle of civilization." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
from the royal tombs, death pit, royal cemetery, shell plaques, steatite vessels, tomb chamber, lapis beads, rein ring, pouring vessels, modern impression, pit floor, seal inscribed, red limestone, cylinder seals, administrative texts, carnelian beads, drinking tube, stone vessels, metal vessels, top register, combat scene, wardrobe chest, sound box, royal inscriptions, gaming board Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Death Pit, British Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives, Sumerian King List, University Museum, Great Lyre, Jamdat Nasr, King's Grave, Trial Trench, Leonard Woolley, Persian Gulf, Seal Impression Strata, The Death of Gilgamesh, Tell Asmar, World War, Central Asia, Indus Valley, Iraq Museum, Queen Puabi, Tell Abu Shahrain, Dynasty of Akkad, Gold Din, Near East, Port Said New!
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- University of Pennsylvania (PA) (Campus History Series) by Amey A. Hutchins on 11 pages
- Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago . Volume 6: (H) (Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the Univers) by Martha T Roth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sumerian King List (Assyriological Studies) by Thorkild Jacobsen on page 3
- Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization (Ark Paperbacks) by Michael A. Hoffman in Back Matter
- History of Art, 6th Edition by H.W. Janson in Front Matter
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