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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