The Lyres of Ur or Harps of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in modern Iraq from...

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...

the tomb of Puabi, housed at the British Museum Queen's Lyre, one of the Lyres of Ur, Ur Royal Cemetery. Inlay with two standing goats, Ur, Tomb PG 800...

the Greeks on the western lyres. There are several regional variations in the design of thin lyres. The Egyptian thin lyre was characterized by arms that...

is a testimony of Ur's economic importance during the Early Bronze Age. Excavation in the old city of Ur in 1929 revealed the Lyres of Ur, instruments similar...

known string instruments, the Lyres of Ur, which includes the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur. There are several surviving works of written music; the Hurrian songs...

The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BC that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It comprises a hollow wooden box...

found in the tomb of Puabi, housed at the British Museum Queen's Lyre, one of the Lyres of Ur, Ur Royal Cemetery. Cylinder seal of Queen Puabi, found...

culture the harp originated. Far more bull lyres survive in Ur of Mesopotamia, notably the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur, though they are nearly identical to their...

Lyres of Ur. Sumerian culture was male-dominated and stratified. The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest such codification yet discovered, dating to the Ur III...