12357A | 1929,1017.1
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A, B] Statues of rams. A pair. With gold heads and legs; lapis horns, eyes and manes; shell fleeces; silver bellies; the plants and flowers gold; mounted on silver stands with pink and white mosaic diaper. The ram stands on his hind legs, the front legs doubled up and shackled to the stems of tall plants whose arrowhead shaped leaves & rosette flowers rise on each side of the head. Gold sockets rising from the shoulder shows that they were supports for something : of this the only possible trace was a white substance, perhaps leather, which lay under the second animal found. The first animal [A] is rather badly broken & the legs & part of the rump are separate but the thickness of the body is preserved : the second [B] is squashed quite flat but keeps its silhouette & only 3 of the flowers are detached. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli2 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shell2 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver2 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold2 |
| U Number: | 12357A |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Zoomorphic |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 07: 1928-1929 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB |
| Popular Name: | Ram in the Thicket |
| Description (Modern): | Statuette of a goat perched against a bush looking for food; tree is of gold leaf; inlaid; goat has face and legs of gold leaf; horns, eyes and shoulder fleece of lapis lazuli; body fleece of white shell; originally mounted on wooden core; silver pedestal with mosaic description in shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone; one of a pair; tube rising from shoulders indicates that it was used as a support; inlaid.1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli |
| Material: | Organic Remains >> Shell |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 122200 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1929,1017.1 |
| Measurement (X): | 457 |
| Measurement (Y): | 305 |
| Notes: | The British Museum's ram is A based onfield photographs and the publication. |
| [1] Merlin |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PG/1237 | Woolley called this the 'Great Death Pit' because it is the largest of all the death pits in the royal cemetery. He found 74 bodies within but did not find a built chamber, an aspect he believed essential to royal tombs. Woolley declared the chamber must have been completely looted away and pointed to small amounts of rubble as evidence of this, but in fact the large size of this death pit and the particular wealth displayed by Body 61 may indicate that the primary burial was among the attendants in this case. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| The Excavations at Ur 1929-30 | The Excavations at Ur 1929-30 | 1930 | Hall, H.R | (none) |
| U12357 Catalog Card | U12357 Catalog Card | 1924-1936 | Woolley et al | (none) | |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:52 Page:228 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:52 Page:228 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:52 Page:229 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:52 Page:229 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p212 | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p212 | (none) |
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 1201-1300 >> PG/1237
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hall, H.R. (1930) The Excavations at Ur 1929-30, .
Woolley et al. (1924-1936) U12357 Catalog Card, Unpublished.