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The plating of the bull's head had collapsed and torn once the wooden core had deteriorated. The bitumen of the front panel had been pulverized, dislodging the shell inlay. Both were originally restored at the British Museum. When they arrived at the Penn Museum a new sound box was created, and painted by watercolorist M. L. Baker. [3]
Below the head is a front panel made of shell inlay set into bitumen. [14] 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 ram's head and legs are layered in gold leaf which had been hammered against the wood and stuck to it with a thin wash of bitumen, while its ears are copper which are now green with verdigris. The horns and the fleece on its shoulders are of lapis lazuli , and the body's fleece is made of shell, attached to a thicker coat of bitumen.
Although scholars were missing this information, that did not impede Katharine Woolley and one of the Penn Museum's curators, Father Leon Legrain, from giving Queen Puabi a face (and adding make-up). [ 7 ] [ 2 ] Dr. Legrain modeled his reconstruction of Queen Puabi on the sculpture from Tello ( Girsu ), “la femme a l’echarpe,” which was ...
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