jd 🔆 on Nostr: Queen's Lyre 2600 BCE, Royal Cemetery, Ur (Iraq) Reconstruction; wooden parts, pegs ...
Queen's Lyre
2600 BCE, Royal Cemetery, Ur (Iraq)
Reconstruction; wooden parts, pegs and string are modern; lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone mosaic decoration, set in bitumen. The head (but not the horns) of the bull are ancient; the bull's is covered with gold; the eyes are lapis lazuli and shell and the hair and beard are lapis lazuli. Eleven gold-headed pegs for the strings.
(via British Museum)
#archaeology #archeology
2600 BCE, Royal Cemetery, Ur (Iraq)
Reconstruction; wooden parts, pegs and string are modern; lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone mosaic decoration, set in bitumen. The head (but not the horns) of the bull are ancient; the bull's is covered with gold; the eyes are lapis lazuli and shell and the hair and beard are lapis lazuli. Eleven gold-headed pegs for the strings.
(via British Museum)
#archaeology #archeology