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| Picture No | 12688647 |
| Date | 1934 |
| Description | The metal-worker's art at Ur in 4th Millennium B.C. |
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An ancient Sumarian hair ornament, with flowers inlaid with gold, shell, lapis-lazuli and red limetone, and the silver rein ring of Queen Shub-Ad's ass-drawn chariot found in her tomb at Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley during the excavations. On the left, a gold dagger with a silver-covered handle and pommel found beside the skeleton of a young man named Mes-Kalam-Dug in a private grave in the older cemetery at Ur.
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| Source | Page from 'The Illustrated London News', 24 February 1934, page 276 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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