Penn Museum -- Queen Puabi's headdress
Penn Museum -- Queen Puabi's headdress
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That is absolutely gorgeous. And thank you for keeping me on your ping list. I never reply but rest assured I read and enjoy every one.
Don`t forget the 12 Ram-in-a-Thicket statuettes a la` Abraham
Woolley conducted excavations at Ur for 12 seasons, excavations paid for by the British Museum and the University of Pennsyvlania; five of those seasons (1926-1932) were concentrated on the Royal Cemetery. Woolley excavated some 1850 burials, including 16 royal graves in the earliest part of the cemetery. Fourteen of them had been plundered in antiquity; one of those was Queen Puabi's tomb, which was largely intact. Ten of the sixteen royal tombs had large substantially-built stone and/or mud brick tombs with one or more chambers. The other six are royal Death Pits, which had no structures but lots of bodies.
Queen Puabi's tomb, recorded as RT/800, was discovered some 7 meters below the top of the tell.
How I would love to see this...
That is a beautiful headdress.
Fantastic.
Not only beautiful works of art but interesting technological advances made by the Sumerians could be seen.
Thanks for posting. This is beautiful stuff.
check out the vegetation headdress and the banana earrings.
Now we know that Carmen Miranda was a descendant of a long lost royal clan of Ur.
