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.
Baadsgaard A, Monge J, Cox S, and Zettler RL. 2011. Human sacrifice and intentional corpse preservation in the Royal Cemetery of Ur. Antiquity 85(327):27-42.
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 Unpublished paper given at the Lacona VI meetings in Vienna, Austria, September 21-25, 2005.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.
