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Queen's Lyre
2600 BCE, Royal Cemetery, Ur (Iraq)
Reconstruction; wooden parts, pegs and string are modern; lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone mosaic decoration, set in bitumen. The head (but not the horns) of the bull are ancient; the bull's is covered with gold; the eyes are lapis lazuli and shell and the hair and beard are lapis lazuli. Eleven gold-headed pegs for the strings.
(via British Museum)
#archaeology #archeology
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