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• Historical Context (3 pages) Presentation Map • Ram Caught in a Thicket (2 pages) • Standard of Ur (2 pages) • Cultural Influences (2 pages) • The Great Lyre (2 pages) • Subject and Style • Silver Head of a Lion (2 pages) • Processes and Materials • The Headdress of Queen Pu-abi (2 pages) • Printed Sources and Links (2 pages) • Works Cited (2 pages)
Historical Context By Jessica Lin • Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia located near the original mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The remaining of the city are currently known as Iraq. The city of Ur was founded sometime in the six thousand B.C. and occupied for nearly five thousand years. By 2500 B.C. Ur was the center of Mesopotamia due to its remarkable agricultural and material wealth. Its strategic location on the Euphrates, with waterway access to the Persian Gulf, helped it grow by the 3rd millennium into a major, fully urban center. (Horne, 1). Ur contained the greatest cemetery constructed at the peak of its early prosperity; around 2650 B.C. Conducted in an excavation project funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Professor Wholley excavated nearly 1850 burials. There are sixteen burial artifacts that were deemed royal because they contained distinctive construction, the wealthy contents, and they were buried with the remaining body parts of the deceased.
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