Figure Caption: Inlaid silver cosmetic box lid (Height: 3.5 cm; Diameter: 6.4 cm) of silver, lapis lazuli and shell, carved from a single piece of shell. The lid depicts a lion attacking a sheep or goat. Found in Queen Puabi's tomb, in the Royal Cemetery of Ur, ca 2550 BCE.
More Information about Ur and Mesopotamia
- Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery, Penn Museum Press Release
- Ancient Ur, Iraq, more details about the Mesopotamian city state
- Timeline and Description of Mesopotamia
- C. Leonard Woolley
Bibliography of the Royal Cemetery
This brief bibliography is a few of the most recent publications on Leonard C. Woolley's excavations at the Royal Cemetery at Ur.
Cheng, Jack 2009 A review of Early Dynastic III music: man’s animal call. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68(3):163-178.
Dickson, D. B. 2006 Public Transcripts Expressed in Theatres of Cruelty: the Royal Graves at Ur in Mesopotamia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16(2):123–144.
Gansell, Amy R. 2007 Identity and Adornment in the Third-millennium bc Mesopotamian ‘Royal Cemetery’ at Ur. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(1):29–46.
Irving, Alexandra and Janet Ambers 2002 Hidden Treasure from the Royal Cemetery at Ur: Technology Sheds New Light on the Ancient Near East. Near Eastern Archaeology 65(3):206-213.
McCaffrey, Kathleen. 2008. The Female Kings of Ur. pp. 173-215 in Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East, Diane R. Bolger, editor. AltaMira Press, Lanham, Maryland.
Miller, Naomi F. 1999 Date sex in Mesopotamia! Expedition 41(1):29-30.
Molleson, Theya and Dawn Hodgson 2003 The Human Remains from Woolley's Excavations at Ur. Iraq 6591-129.
Pollock, Susan. 2007. The Royal Cemetery of Ur: Ritual, Tradition, and the Creation of Subjects. pp 89-110 In Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman, editors. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana.
Rawcliffe, C., et al. 2005 Laser Engraving Gulf Pearl Shell--Aiding the Reconstruction of the Lyre of Ur. Lacona VI. Unpublished paper given at the Lacona VI meetings in Vienna, Austria, September 21-25, 2005. Free download
Reade, Julian 2001 Assyrian King-Lists, the Royal Tombs of Ur, and Indus Origins. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60(1):1-29.
Tengberg, M., D. T. Potts, and H.-P Francfort 2008 The golden leaves of Ur. Antiquity 82:925-936.
