ANCIENT TOMB

Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 7

ANCIENT TOMB

DISCOVERS AT OR OF CHALDEES WONDERFUL TREASURES GOLD AND SILVER ORNAMENTS, 4 Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 12. (Received January 13, at 8.45 a.m.) A second tomb, dated 3400 b. 0,, has been discovered at Ur of Chaldees. It contains treasure more remarkable than the Prince’s, says the British Museum. The offerings to the dead include golden vessels, a toilet set, taws, axes, spears, a gaming board with men and lapis dice inlaid with gold, scores of silver cups and vases, many nested within others in groups of five, the remains of a chariot (the wood of which has disappeared) decorated with golden heads of lions and bulls with lapis manes, silver panthers’ heads, the pole surmounted by a realistically sculptured electrum figure of a donkey, and the bodies of the asses by which it was pulled lay beside the pole, the harness being of copper and silver; also the remains of a twelve-stringed harp ornamented with gold.—A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable.

[A message received on December 17 stated: Many gold relics are among the discoveries at Ur of Chaldees, according to a report of the joint expedition from the British Museum and the Pennsylvania University. The grave of a royal prince, dating probably 5,500 years before Christ, contained a gold head-dress and a gold wig, and nearby were golden bowls, a lamp, beads, earrings, rings, silver daggers with gold hilts, gold-mounted spears, and many articles of silver and lapis lazuli. Other finds showed that the women once wore their hair in a net of woven gold, with ribbons from which hung beads of lapis cornelian, also huge ear pendants. A later fashion decreed the weaving of ribbons round their tresses, which were looped overhead, with earrings quite small.]