• The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BCE that is now in the collection of the British Museum.
  • Excavated from the royal tombs of Ur by British archaeologist Leonard Woolley in the 1920s, the Standard of Ur is a box...
  • The Standard of Ur at the British Museum.
  • Charles Leonard Woolley led an expedition to Ur for the British Museum and the University Museum, Philadelphia between 1922-34.
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  • The Standard of Ur is a wonderful example of Mesopotamian artistic achievement that reveals a wealth of information about one of the world’s great ancient ...
  • This object was found in one of the largest graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, lying in the corner of a chamber above the right shoulder of a man.
  • The two sides of the Standard of Ur are in fact a superb and alarmingly early illustration of the military-economic nexus, of the ugly violence, that underlies prosperity.
  • Standard of UrBritish Museum – DavidC Photography The Standard of Ur From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC Height: 21.59 cm Length...