[Jewelry making - Article 00102] - Re: [Orchid] Sumerian jewelry from Ur

[Len and Judy Bjorkman]

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    Thanks, Mona, for your interest in this area.  It is indeed
    fascinating. I, too,  have long wondered why the Egyptian material
    (which is also interesting) has received the lion's share of general
    attention.  

    There are books showing some of that Sumerian jewelry.  Penn's
    University Museum recently sent an exhibition of Ur goodies around
    the country, and the book with it is entitled Treasures from the
    Royal Tombs of Ur (edited by R. Zettler and Lee Horne; 1998).  It
    gives a good summary and the latest thinking on the "Royal Tombs"
    and many close-up photos of the portion of the Ur jewelry, stone
    work, harps, statues, headdresses, cylinder seals, etc., that was
    allotted to Penn (which was a partner with the British Museum in
    these excavations). 

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City recently had a
    wonderful exhibit, "Art of the First Cities," and the book with it
    has the same title.  There's more  Sumerian jewelry on pp. 123-132. 
    The rest of the book is great eye-candy,  too. 

    If you get the catalog from the MMA store,  in it you  will find
    reproductions of some of the Sumerian jewelry  for sale. 

    As for the two different  names for the high-born woman found in the
    rich tomb  in the "Royal" Cemetery,  "Shub-Ad" is the Sumerian
    reading of  the cuneiform signs making up her name; "Pu-Abi" is an 
    Akkadian reading of the same signs. 

Judy Bjorkman


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