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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.
The instrument remains were restored and distributed between the museums that took part in the excavations. The "Golden Lyre of Ur" or "Bull's Lyre", the finest, is in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The British Museum in London has the "Queen's Lyre" and "Silver Lyre", and the Penn Museum in Philadelphia has the "Bull-Headed Lyre".
Pages in category "University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
5th-4th century BC Etruscan gold necklace, display at the Penn Museum, 2005.. The Penn Museum is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania.It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [1]
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.
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]
The Ram in a Thicket (London) viewed from the front The Ram in a Thicket viewed from the side - University of Pennsylvania Version. When it was discovered, the 45.7 cm (18.0 in) figure had been crushed flat by the weight of the soil above it and its inner wooden core had decomposed.
One article appeared, for example, in a volume considering the legacies of the first Ottoman director of antiquities, Osman Hamdi Bey, who received an honorary doctorate from Penn. [5] Another examined the Penn Museum’s late nineteenth-century excavations in Nippur – a site at which he himself has conducted extensive research.