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Copper Bull, the Glossary

Index Copper Bull

The Copper Bull is a copper sculpture found at the site of Tell al-'Ubaid near the ancient city of Ur, now in southern Iraq, by Sir Leonard Woolley in 1923.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 11 relations: Bitumen, British Museum, Gertrude Bell, Iraq, Leonard Woolley, London, Ninhursag, Penn Museum, Tell al-'Ubaid, Terence Mitchell, Ur.

  2. Archaeological discoveries in Iraq
  3. Sculptures of cattle
  4. Sumerian art and architecture

Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Leonard Woolley

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Ninhursag

Ninḫursaĝ (𒀭𒎏𒄯𒊕 Ninḫarsang), sometimes transcribed Ninursag, Ninḫarsag, or Ninḫursaĝa, also known as Damgalnuna or Ninmah, was the ancient Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, and one of the seven great deities of Sumer.

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Penn Museum

Penn Museum, formerly known as The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Tell al-'Ubaid

Tell al-'Ubaid (العبيد) is a low, relatively small tell (settlement mound) west of nearby Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.

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Terence Mitchell

Terence Croft Mitchell (17 June 1929 – 21 April 2019) was a British archaeologist, scholar and curator.

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Ur

Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (mound of bitumen) in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq.

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See also

Archaeological discoveries in Iraq

Sculptures of cattle

Sumerian art and architecture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Bull

Also known as Copper Bull (Ubaid).