Post Date:
Nov 6, 2015 2:00 AM
TAG ID:
hiphotos082834
(RM)
Credit:
Werner Forman Archive / Heritage Images/Newscom
Format:
3187 x 3937 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Werner Forman Archive
Keywords:
technology,fashion,middle,east,costume,headdress,custom,archaeology,ancient,excavation,tomb,gold,ritual,jewellery,jewelry,burial,object,charles,metalwork,rite,artefact,archeology,near,funeral,Iraq,funerary,metalworking,ur,Mesopotamia,Sumer,Sumerian,Chaldean,Werner Forman Archive,Werner Forman,Forman, Werner,Werner Forman Archive 2,SUMERIA,WOOLLEY,LEONARD,PU,ABI
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
Mounted on a model are hair ornaments, earrings and necklaces. Jewellery of this kind was worn by many of the women attendants of Queen Pu-Abi. Found in the royal burial pits excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. Culture: Sumerian. Date/Period: c.2500 BC. Place of Origin: Ur, Sumeria, Ancient Iraq. Material Size: Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ British Museum, London . Location: 08.