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Volume 40, Number 2

Summer 1998

Special Issue: The World of Ur

Cover: UPM Neg. T4-480. The great bull-headed lyre from Ur.

Hard copies of this issue are sold out.






Features

Introduction
Helen Schenck

Ur and Its Treasures--The Royal Tombs
Lee Horne

The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music
Anne Draffkorn Kilmer

The "Boat-Shaped" Lyre--Restudy of a Uniqe Musical Instrument from Ur
Maude de Schauensee

Life on the Edge of the Marshes
Edward Ochsenschlager

Texts, Tablets, and Teaching--Scribal Education in Nippur and Ur
Steve Tinney

Rescue and Restoration--A History of the Philadelphia "Ram Caught in a Thicket"
Yelena Rakic

A Makeover for the Philadelphia "Ram Caught in a Thicket"
Tamsen Fuller

 

Departments

Musings and Visions from the Director's Desk

About the Authors