Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
The Bull Headed Lyre is one of the oldest string instruments ever discovered. The lyre was excavated in the Royal Cemetery at Ur during the 1926–1927 season of an archeological dig carried out in what is now Iraq jointly by the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. Leonard Woolley led the excavations.
- material
- gold
- held at
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology · archaeological museum
- inv. no.
- B17694B