Earring, Early Dynastic IIIa, ca. 2600–2500 , Mesopotamia, Ur (modern Tell al-Muqayyar), Sumerian, Gold, 2 3/4 in. (7 cm

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Earring, Early Dynastic IIIa, ca. 2600–2500 , Mesopotamia, Ur (modern Tell al-Muqayyar), Sumerian, Gold, 2 3/4 in. (7 cm), Metalwork-Ornaments, These earrings (MMA and MMA ) come from the so-called Great Death Pit, which was probably part of a royal tomb with an almost totally destroyed stone chamber. Laid out in the pit were the bodies of six armed men and sixty-eight people thought to be women or young girls, all adorned with the most splendid jewelry made of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian

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