ROYAL TREASURES OF UR
RICHLY-ADORNED BODIES FINE SUMERIAN STATUES (Australian, and 2?.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Monday. The party of excavators sent out to Lr of the Chaldees by the British Museum authorities were clearing the ante-chamber of the Royal tomb when a pit 25ft square was found covered with bodies of human victims, mostly women. They were adorned with headdresses of gold, silver and lapis lazuli, far richer than those worn by the nine Court ladies found in the King’s tomb in 1928. Other discoveries were three gold and silver harps, magnificently decorated, and two statues of rams caught in thickets, the head and legs of gold, the fleeces of white shell and lapis lazuli. These statues are the two most remarkable objects of Sumerian art yet discovered.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 9
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128ROYAL TREASURES OF UR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 9
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