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Statue
2450 BCE
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Statue
- Date Created: 2450 BCE
- Location Created: Ur, Iraq
- Physical Dimensions: 42.5 x 18 x 27 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Gold, Silver, Lapis Lazuli
- Object Number: 30-12-702
- Descriptive Note: CBS Register: U.12357. Goat of gold, silver, lapis, shell, in the round, standing in a gold bush, on mosaic pavement. Small figural furnishing found with a near duplicate in grave 1237 in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Though colloquially known as the 'Ram in the Thicket' it more accurately depicts a goat standing on its back legs to feed on leaves in a tree. The goat is formed of shell, lapis, and gold originaly formed over a wood and bitumen core. It was crushed flat by the weight of some nine meters of soil above it and had to be painstakingly restored.
- Credit Line: British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1930
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