The Ram in a Thicket is a pair of figures excavated at Ur, in southern Iraq, which date from about 2600–2400 BC. One is in the Mesopotamia Gallery in Room...
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Royal Cemetery at Ur (category Cemeteries in Iraq)
attributed to king Mesannepada. Disposition of royal attendants in tomb PG 1237 Ram in a Thicket in PG 1237 Silver lyre, PG 1237 The golden bull's head from...
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Ram Caught in a Thicket. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. The phrase "ram...
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Mesopotamia (redirect from Social life in Babylonia and Assyria)
Cemetery at Ur (c. 2650 BC), including the two figures of a Ram in a Thicket, the Copper Bull and a bull's head on one of the Lyres of Ur. From the many subsequent...
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Chryselephantine sculptures. Art in ancient Greece Classical sculpture Ram in a Thicket Lapatin, Kenneth D. S. (2001). Chryselephantine statuary in the ancient Mediterranean...
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British Museum (category 1753 establishments in England)
AD) Room 56 – The 'Ram in a Thicket' figure, one of a pair, from Ur, Southern Iraq, c. 2600 BC Room 56 – The famous 'Standard of Ur', a hollow wooden box...
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Art of Mesopotamia (section Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)
Cemetery at Ur (c. 2650 BC), including the two figures of a Ram in a Thicket, the Copper Bull and a bull's head on one of the Lyres of Ur. The so-called Standard...
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Lord provides a ram in a thicket for the sacrifice. "For Nephi," Swift points out, "there was no ram in the thicket." Some commentators see a better biblical...
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Leonard Woolley (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Bull-Headed Lyre. In the course of excavating the royal cemetery and the pair of Ram in a Thicket figurines. Agatha Christie's novel, Murder in Mesopotamia...
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Burney Relief (category Animal sculptures in London)
have been preserved. This is certainly not due to a lack of artistic skill: the "Ram in a Thicket" shows how elaborate such sculptures could have been...
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Dürer's Rhinoceros (category Prints and drawings in the British Museum)
to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe...
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Sumer (category States and territories established in the 4th millennium BC)
limestone; height: 4.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Ram in a Thicket; 2600–2400 BC; gold, copper, shell, lapis lazuli and limestone; height:...
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Gilding (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
mentioned in Homer's Odyssey and the Old Testament. The Ram in a Thicket (2600–2400 BC) from Ur describes this technique used on wood, with a thin layer...
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British Museum Department of the Middle East (category Archaeological museums in London)
millennium BC. Some of the masterpieces include the 'Standard of Ur', the 'Ram in a Thicket', the 'Royal Game of Ur', and two bull-headed lyres. The department...
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Ur (category Archaeological sites in Iraq)
History of Sumer List of cities of the ancient Near East Lyres of Ur Ram in a Thicket Royal Game of Ur Short chronology Tal Abu Tbeirah Portals: Iraq History...
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found in items such as jewelry, plaques, gaming boards, lyres, ostrich-egg vessels, and also in parts of a larger sculpture known as Ram in a Thicket. Some...
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Girgentana (category Goat breeds originating in Italy)
prisca and the Ram in a Thicket statues excavated at Ur by Leonard Woolley in 1927–28. Leopold Adametz proposed that it is descended, at least in part, from...
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Blau Monuments (category Middle Eastern sculptures in the British Museum)
Blau Monuments are a pair of inscribed stone objects from Mesopotamia now in the British Museum. They are commonly thought to be a form of ancient kudurru...
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be pronounced Nin “lady”, or Eresh “queen”. The Standard of Ur Ram in a Thicket Lyre of a Bull's Head from Queen Puabi's tomb. (British Museum) Nacre plate...
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Death-Pit," might belong to him. Remains in tomb PG 1232 Disposition of royal attendants in tomb PG 1237 Ram in a Thicket in PG 1237 Silver lyre, PG 1237 Wikimedia...
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Timeline of art (redirect from List of 'years in art')
Pyramid 2600 BC – Standard of Ur is created; Stele of the Vultures; Ram in a Thicket; the Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel; the Copper Bull; the Bent Pyramid...
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as the "Ram in a Thicket" and as the beard of a bull attached to a lyre. Some of the larger objects include a spouted cup, a dagger-hilt, and a whetstone...
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carnelian (the orange beads); length: 38.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Ram in a Thicket; 2600–2400 BC; gold, copper, shell, lapis lazuli and limestone; height:...
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Sculpture (redirect from Sculpture in-the-round)
Cemetery at Ur (c. 2650 BCE), including the two figures of a Ram in a Thicket, the Copper Bull and a bull's head on one of the Lyres of Ur. From the many subsequent...
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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (category Ancient Egyptian objects in the British Museum)
published, and a handful of these stand out. The Rhind Papyrus was published in 1923 by the English Egyptologist T. Eric Peet and contains a discussion of...
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Grove (nature) (category Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback via Module:Annotated link)
grǣfe ('brushwood; thicket; copse'), Old English grǣfa ('thicket'), dialectal Norwegian greive ('ram with splayed horns'), dialectal Norwegian greivlar ('ramifications...
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Farnese Diadumenos (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum)
Farnese Diadumenos is a 1st-century AD, slightly smaller than lifesize, Roman marble copy of Polyclitus's Diadumenos sculpture. Once in the Farnese collection...
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Soil. Nur.sing, kamel mennour, Paris. 2013 – ‘The Ram in the Thicket’ Maison Hermes in Ginza, Tokyo. Curator: Reiko Setsuda 2013 – ‘ZBIB EL-ARD’ Har-El...
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David Vases (category Asian objects in the British Museum)
Vases are a pair of blue-and-white temple vases from the Yuan dynasty. The vases have been described as the "best-known porcelain vases in the world"...
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Museum (TV series) (category British Museum in media)
Museum is a British television documentary series, produced by BBC Wales. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the British Museum, narrated by Ian McMillan...
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