Gold Spouted Cup from Ur

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 19 February 2018

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Gold Spouted Cup from Ur — Gold vessel with a long spout that would probably have been used as a drinking straw, from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Early Dynastic Period, c. 2600 BCE.

The British Museum, London.

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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