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Two lyres from Ur / Maude de Schauensee.

Title
Two lyres from Ur / Maude de Schauensee.
Author
Schauensee, Maude de.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, c2002.

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xix, 125 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
Summary
  • "During the 1928-29 season at Ur, in the Great Death Pit of the Royal Cemetery, C. Leonard Woolley discovered two spectacular musical instruments - a silver Boat-shaped Lyre and a magnificent lyre with the head of a bull made of gold sheet and a lapis lazuli beard. This book chronicles their history, conservation, and reconservation." "In meticulous detail, using both traditional methods and new X-ray and electronic imaging investigative techniques, Maude de Schauensee probes and analyzes the construction of the two lyres held by the University Museum while providing an economic, historical, and sociological context in which to better understand them. She examines the decorative motifs along with the materials and the techniques of the builders of these instruments. The illustrations - 10 pieces of line art, 25 photographs, 6 CAT-scans, 5 X-rays, and 24 color plates - supply additional details. This book presents new information and conservation descriptions for the first time."
  • "Musicologists, art historians, Near East scholars and archaeologists, and general readers will find this book's new analysis of the instruments of an ancient culture of significant interest."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Lyre > History
  • Musical instruments, Ancient > Babylonia
  • Ur (Extinct city) > History
  • Iraq > Antiquities
  • Iraq > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-121) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Jeremy A. Sabloff -- The Two Lyres--From Excavation to Conservation -- The Boat-shaped Lyre -- The Lapis-bearded Lyre -- Boat-shaped Lyre Treatment / Tamsen Fuller -- Conservation of the Bull's Head for the Lapis-bearded Lyre / Virginia Greene.
ISBN
092417188X
LCCN
^^2002003835
OCLC
  • 49312621
  • SCSB-10496397
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library