The excavations at the Royal Cemetery at Ur were concentrated on the most elite burials. Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery, Penn Museum (Comb Height: 26 cm Diameter of Hair Rings: 2.7 cm Comb Width: 11 cm) The headdress of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian includes a frontlet with beads and pendant gold rings, two wreaths of poplar leaves, a wreath of willow leaves and inlaid rosettes, and a string of lapis lazuli beads, discovered on Queen Puabi’s body in her tomb at the Royal Cemetery of Ur, ca 2550 BCE.īull-Headed Lyre from Ur. Although they are believed to have been servants and laborers, most of the skeletons wore elaborate pieces of jewelry and held precious stone and metal vessels.įigure Caption: Queen Puabi’s headdress. the individuals buried here are thought to have been sacrificial victims who had attended a banquet in this spot before their deaths. Woolley called this area the Great Death Pit. A large pit, probably representing a sunken courtyard or entry shafts into Puabi's burial chamber, held over seventy skeletons. She was placed on a raised platform, wearing this elaborate gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian headdress and the beaded jewelry seen on additional pages below.
Puabi's tomb (RT/800) was a stone and mud brick structure measuring 4.35 x 2.8 meters.
Puabi (her name, found on a cylinder seal within the tomb, was probably closer to Pu-abum) was approximately 40 years old at the time of her death. Queen Puabi was the name of a woman buried in one of the richest of the tombs excavated by Woolley at the Royal Cemetery.
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