The Standard of Ur and the Ram in the Thicket from the Ancient Mesopotamian Royal Cemetery of Ur.
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2024
- The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BC that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It comprises a hollow wooden box measuring 21.59 centimeters (8.50 in) wide by 49.53 centimeters (19.50 in) long, inlaid with a mosaic of shell, red limestone and lapis lazuli. It comes from the ancient city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq west of Nasiriyah). It dates to the First Dynasty of Ur during the Early Dynastic period and is around 4,600 years old.
The Ram in a Thicket is a pair of figures excavated at Ur, in southern Iraq, which date from about 2600-2400 BC. One is in the Mesopotamia Gallery in Room 56 of the British Museum in London; the other is in the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, USA.
Both of these items were filmed in the British Museum in July 2017.