Lyre

Lyre

Object Type:
Lyre
Materials:
Silver

CBS Register: silver harp, boat shaped, decorated with silver stag in round, amid copper plants.

Woolley field notes: “Harp of silver throughout [;] the body is boat-shaped and the front upright is supported by a silver statue of a stag 070 high, its forefeet resting in the crook of a long-stemmed arrow-leafed plant which rises up on each side of the head (this is copper). 

Provenience:Iraq
Ur
Archaeology Area:PG 1237
Locus:PG 1237
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Silver