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Ur (Fara-Ur I period) : Part of woman's headdress from Royal Cemetery

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dc.contributor.authorStrommenger, Eva
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialMesopotamia (Ur, Iraq)
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-06T04:54:54Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T04:54:54Z
dc.date.created1964
dc.identifierANUA 682-4145
dc.identifier.otherWA-60
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/201441
dc.descriptionNumerous richly adorned female skeletons have been found. The position in the grave indicates that this jewellery once decorated the head. With it was a needle forking into 3 branches with rosettes and golden hair spirals. Large crescent-shaped earrings & numerous necklaces also found. Thought to be funerary because of symbolical shapes used in design. This example now in British Museum. -- "Royal Tomb", Meskalamdu(g) phase, c. 2685-45, gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian.
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediumslide
dc.format.mediumcolour
dc.format.mediumsepia
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.subjectMesopotamia : Eridu-'Ubaid period, Early Sumerian period, Fara-Ur I period, Imperial Akkadian period
dc.subjectjewellery
dc.subjectgold
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleUr (Fara-Ur I period) : Part of woman's headdress from Royal Cemetery
dc.typeImage
local.description.notesSource : Eva Strommenger, The Art of Mesopotamia, translated by Christina Haglund, London, Thames & Hudson, 1964, Plate XIX
dc.date.updated2020-02-06T04:54:54Z
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2020
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
CollectionsArthur Llewellyn Basham

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