Baghdad Museum: Golden Bull's Head

National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad

The Golden Bull's Head from the Lyre, circa 2500 B.C. (Electrotype copy). 31-18-10

This is an exact electrotype replica of an artifact that was excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the British Museum at the Royal Tombs of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Location: National Museum of Iraq, in Baghdad.

Photo: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology