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Sceptre from Ur,Mesopotamia,2600-2400 BCE. Found by Leonard Woolley in the largest of the Royal Graves in the cemetery at Ur, Iraq.Robbers had broken in through the roof; only a few bones and this sceptre remained. The top end has a mushroom-shaped shell inlaid with a blue and red rosette.Five bands of very thin gold foil with designs in relief
as if from cylinder seals; between the gold bands are rings of lapis lazuli. Reconstructed 1966. ANE 122201
Location
British Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART200601
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
1600px × 658px
Photo Credit
Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY
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Lapis lazuli
Mesopotamian
Precious Stone
SCEPTER
Shell
Ur, Sumer