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Historical Archive: Great Lyre Ur, about 2550-2450 BCE bull head: gold, shell, lapis, bitumen, silver, 40 x 25 x 19 cm (15.7 x 9.8 x 7.5 inches) plaque: bitumen and shell inlay (Pinctada margaritifera), 31.5 x 11 x 1.5 cm (12.4 x 4.2 x .6 inches) fittings for lyre or harp on reconstructed box University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology B17694A and B17694B frontal, head and plaque together frontal bull head bull head, beard plaque, top two registers: "Master of Animals", hyena and lion servitors plaque, third register: ass playing harp, bear, small animal with sistrum oblique view, head and plaque together oblique view, bull head bull head, eye bull head, oblique view of back with person for scale