Artefacts from the excavation from Tel-El-Obeid
Artefacts from the excavation from Tel-El-Obeid excavation in Ur of the Chaldean, which were on show in the British Museum. Ur of the Chaldeans, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of the Israelite and Ismaelite patriarch Abraham. Tell al-'Ubaid is a low, relatively small tell (settlement mound) west of nearby Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. Artefacts such as the mother-of-pearl porch pillar, pottery flowers, clay urn, carved ox and a model of thrown are seen here
Picture No
13744045
Media ID
46791200
Size
3116px x 5000px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph, The Sphere, 10 January 1925, p37
Date
1925
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Artefacts Birthplace Chaldean Hebrew Iraq Israelite Mother-of-pearl Mound Patriarch Porch
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