The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur. Each lyre had a different animal head protruding from the front of the sound box to denote its pitch: the bull lyre was bass, the ...

Sir Leonard Woolley uncovered this lyre in one of Ur’s royal graves. Dating to about 2600 B.C., this musical instrument features a bull with a beard of lapis lazuli—a stone brought from ...

Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's head of gold and lapis lazuli adorns a lyre discovered in the tomb of Queen Puabi in Ur. Photograph courtesy of Penn Museum By Manuel Molina Martos ...

Where it is from: The Royal Cemetery at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq) When it was made: Circa 2550 B.C. Related: Oseberg tapestry: Viking Age artwork from a boat burial that may depict the ...

The process of reconstructing the bull lyre proved a difficult and time-consuming job, and given the lack of detailed textual information, ... Wooley, C. L. Ur Excavations: The Royal Cemetery. Oxford: ...

Archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered two nearly identical statuettes, which he named "Ram in the Thicket," in the Great Death Pit at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in 1928. This burial of one royal ...