Ur Animals
Beasts from the Royal Tombs, A Postcard Book
By (author) University of Pennsylvania Museum
Paperback (Published)
(January 1998)
ISBN: 9780924171611
4.49 x 6.5 inches
Price: $9.95
On back order
Lions and rams and bulls! Oh, my! See them in all their golden splendor. This book contains 20 full-color postcards featuring the animals that decorated the treasures of Ur-the gold and lapis lazuli bull-head from the Great Lyre, the gold and lapis lazuli statuette of the “Ram in the Thicket,” intricately carved animals and human-headed beasts from the inlaid plaques and engraved seal stones, delicate molded bulls and stags from pendants and clothing attachments, the silver lion head, and many more …
Lions and rams and bulls! Oh, my! See them in all their golden splendor. This book contains 20 full-color postcards featuring the animals that decorated the treasures of Ur-the gold and lapis lazuli bull-head from the Great Lyre, the gold and lapis lazuli statuette of the “Ram in the Thicket,” intricately carved animals and human-headed beasts from the inlaid plaques and engraved seal stones, delicate molded bulls and stags from pendants and clothing attachments, the silver lion head, and many more …
- By (author) University of Pennsylvania Museum
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