width. It is one of two silver lyres discovered in "The Great Death Pit". Both lyres were made of wood and then covered in sheets of silver that were attached with small silver nails. The eyes are made of lapis lazuli and the lyre was also trimmed with narrow borders of lapis lazuli. This is the only lyre that is not bearded. Because of this fresh face some believe it is actually a cow rather than a bull. It is held by the British Museum. The Penn Museum also holds a silver boat-shaped Lyre. Gallery See also Music of ancient Mesopotamia Ninigizibara 1929 in archaeology Kinnor, ancient Hebrew form of a lyre or kithara Nevel, ancient Hebrew form of a harp or nabla References 3rd-millennium BC works 1929 archaeological discoveries Ancient music Archaeological discoveries in Iraq Individual harps Middle Eastern objects in the British Museum Objects in the National Museum of Iraq Ur Sculpture of the Ancient Near East Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)