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Work Details:
Title:
Bull Head Lyre (Great Lyre)
Culture/Nationality:
Mesopotamian
Style:
Sumerian
Date:
c. 2600-2400 BCE
Location:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Original Location:
Royal Cemetery, Ur
Medium:
wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell
Dimensions:
35.6 cm high
Bull head
Inlaid front panel
Inlaid front panel of the sound box