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For these reasons, the Penn Museum has asserted that the bull head of the lyre is a representation of Utu/Shamash. [3] The head was made of a single piece of gold plating over a wooden core (now disintegrated) with gold plated ears and horns attached with small pegs. [4] The beard is made of carved lapis lazuli tesserae on a silver backing.
On November 16, 2019, [8] the Penn Museum debuted a newly renovated African gallery alongside many other new galleries and rooms. Penn professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Dr. Tufuku Zuberi, [ 9 ] was appointed as the head curator for the new Africa exhibit, [ 10 ] and approached his former student Breanna Moore about designing a new ...
This panel depicts a figure holding onto a bull's horns above, and animals acting as humans below. The bull head itself likely represents the sun god Utu, who was thought to be able to descend into the underworld. [5] The lyre is held in the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. The "Silver Lyre" is 110 cm (42 in) in height and 97 cm (38 in) in width.
A man walks past the The Penn Museum, part of the University of Pennsylvania, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Over the main entrance on Broad Street there is a large Gothic window with stone tracery. The Cherry Street front is relieved by a colonnade supporting arched windows, back of which is the transept and pointed gable. Beyond the entrance vestibule is the main staircase, which starts from a wide hall and leads to the galleries on the second floor ...
Janet Monge is an American physical anthropologist who was the keeper and curator of the physical anthropology section at the Penn Museum, the associate director and Manager of the Penn Museum Casting Program, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] Philadelphia Magazine named Monge "Best Museum Curator" in 2014. [1]
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.