Death and the Maidens

Philly.com ^ | 4-16-2007 | Tom Avril

[Fred Nerks]

Among C. Leonard Woolley's discoveries at Ur were thick layers of water-laid clay found beneath Ur and dating back to between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. Woolley declared this find to be evidence of the "Great Flood" recorded in Mesopotamian narratives and in the Book of Genesis.

By special arrangement with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the McClung Museum is also featuring an additional display case presenting Woolley's discovery of these deeply buried flood deposits. Included in the exhibit are samples of the "Flood Mud" discovered beneath Ur, and the Nippur Tablet, a clay tablet from ancient Nippur which is the only surviving document of the Sumerian flood story. Dating from the 17th century BC, the tablet contains six columns of text, three per side, with 10-15 lines in each column. Written in Sumerian, it not only tells the flood story, but also describes the creation of humans and animals, and records the names of antediluvian cities and their rulers.

http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur.htm

[Fred Nerks]

Woolley's Plan of the Tomb.

description of contents:

In a pit associated with Puabi's chamber were five armed men, a wooden sled drawn by a pair of oxen, four grooms for the oxen, and a wood chest or wardrobe which probably contained textiles, long since decomposed. Three more attendants crouched near the wardrobe, surrounded by metal, stone and clay vessels. At the opposite end of the pit were 12 female attendants, all wearing less-elaborate versions of Puabi's headdress. Apparently the afterlife sought by the people of Ur included communal beer drinking, because the implements buried with Puabi included a four-foot-long straw of gold for the purpose.

http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibit/ur/

Headdress of the Queen:

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FN.

[colorado tanker]

Apparently the afterlife sought by the people of Ur included communal beer drinking, because the implements buried with Puabi included a four-foot-long straw of gold for the purpose.

Communal beer drinking by the women? Wonder if they got to hold the remote, too?

[SunkenCiv]

I think this was only during spring break.

[wildbill]

Maidens walking into a tomb to be with the King in afterlife isn’t very PC to suit the FemmeNazi crowd.

Why else to they want to ignore Occam’s Razor, the simplest explanation?

It’s good to be the King!

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

As always, thanks for the ping.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SunkenCiv]

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