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Gold ornament

This is a small strip of gold with openwork decoration. It m…
Grey and white marble jar

This marble jar was discovered in the burial of 'Queen' Pu-a…
Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a duck

Toilet or cosmetic boxes of this sort were extremely popular…
Limestone cylinder seal

This limestone cylinder seal was found by the excavator Leon…
Letter from T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) to Leonard Woolley

Between 1911 and 1914 a British Museum expedition carried ou…
Basalt relief showing a storm-god

This is a fragment of a relief depicting the Syrian storm-go…
Copper figure of a bull

This bull was discovered in 1923 by Leonard Woolley at the s…
Copper vessel with silver wire

This copper vessel was discovered by Leonard Woolley in one …
Crushed skull and head-dress

The excavator Leonard Woolley discovered this skull in the '…
Faience mask

The excavator Leonard Woolley discovered this mask in a tomb…
Fluted glass bottle

This glass bottle was discovered by the excavator Leonard Wo…
Fragments of a carved stone box

These fragments of carved chlorite were found at Ur by the e…
Gold and lapis lazuli beads

This collection of jewellery was discovered overlying a skul…
Gold and silver horn-shaped drinking cup

This silver and gold vessel was purchased by the archaeologi…
Green sparry calcite seal

During the first half of the third millennium BC a new range…
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal-1

This cylinder seal comes from the grave of 'Queen' Pu-abi, o…
Obsidian bowl

This is the only obsidian vessel recorded in the graves of t…
Shell plaque

This plaque was found by Leonard Woolley while he excavated …
Silver 'lamp'

The excavator Leonard Woolley discovered this silver vessel,…
Silver 'lamp'

This silver object was discovered in the Royal Cemetery at U…
Stone jar and lid

This stone jar was found in the tomb of 'Queen' Pu-abi, one …
Stone lamp in the shape of a shell

This lamp probably dates to a period just before southern Me…
Stone vessel

This fine vessel was discovered by the excavator Leonard Woo…
Terracotta plaque

Baked clay plaques like this one, showing an affectionate co…
Basalt door jamb

This piece of basalt is part of a door-jamb and comes from t…
Basalt lion head

This Neo-Hittite basalt lion's head was excavated at Carchem…
Beads and pendants

The archaeologist Leonard Woolley found these beads and pend…
Child's diadem

This gold diadem was found by Leonard Woolley in one of the …
Copper statue of Lamma

The excavator Leonard Woolley found this statue in a hollow …
Cylinder seal of Pu-abi

This cylinder seal was discovered in the 'Queen's Grave' in …
Gold bowl

This gold bowl comes from the Queen's Grave in the Royal Cem…
Gold figures of deities

Most of the thirty-eight small gold figures (five illustrate…
Gold pin with a carnelian head

The excavator Leonard Woolley discovered this pin in one of …
Headdress and necklace of gold, lapis lazuli and cornelian

Dug outside the walls of the city, the so-called 'Royal Ceme…
Limestone plaque

Square stone plaques with holes through the centre, and carv…
Limestone statue from the shrine of Hendursag

Leonard Woolley discovered this statue in a niche facing the…
Ostrich egg jar

Leonard Woolley discovered this jar in the Royal Cemetery at…
Queen's Lyre

Leonard Woolley discovered several lyres in the graves in th…
Rein ring of gold and silver

This rein ring is one of several found in the Royal Cemetery…
Sceptre

Leonard Woolley found this sceptre in the largest of the gra…
Statue of Idrimi

This extraordinary statue represents Idrimi, a king of Alala…
Stone head of a woman

This head was probably part of a votive statue , set up in a…
Terracotta figure of a woman suckling a child

Leonard Woolley found this figure, along with a few bones an…
The Royal Game of Ur

This game board is one of several with a similar layout foun…
The Standard of Ur

Leonard Woolley, the excavator at Ur, imagined that it was c…
The 'Ram in a Thicket'

This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonar…