RT/789, the so-called King's Grave, was located in the Royal Cemetery of Ur next to Queen Puabi's but underneath the Great Death Pit. PG 789 was robbed in antiquity, but among the artifacts recovered from it including a silver model of a water craft, and the Ram in the Thicket statue of gold leaf, shell and lapis lazuli. The King's Grave also had a death pit next to it, with 63 adults, and two wheeled vehicles with the draft animals that had drawn them. Scholars believe the last banquet for the king probably took place in the tomb.
Leonard Woolley at the Royal Cemetery of Ur
By K. Kris Hirst, About.com Guide
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The King's Grave at Ur
Plan of the "King's Grave" where the hatched rectangle at the top shows the location of Queen Puabi's tomb. Reprinted from Woolley's The Royal Cemetery, Ur Excavations, Vol. 2, published in 1934.
C. Leonard Woolley, 1934, and the Iraq's Ancient Past, Penn Museum
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