Age-Old Grave Showing Wholesale Sacrifice to Spirit Philadelphia, Feb. 13.
The report of Mr. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the University' of Pennsylvania and the British Museum, which has een excavating the ancient city of Ur of the Chaldees, states that the expedition has. found the richest treasure yet discovered at Ur around the body of Queen Shubad, a Sumerian ruler,, who died 5,000 years ago. The tomb of this Babylonian Queen was intact but that of her husband, near by, had been plundered.
On a slope leading to the burial-pit lay the bodies of six soldiers the Guard with their skulls crushed inside their battered copper helmets, The graveside itself was a sham-les containing fifty bodies belong-{ng to those who had been sacri to the one side of the burial-pit lay men with daggers on their hips, while against the foot of the tomb were stretched the chief ladies of the harem in full Court regalia, Beside them' were cockleshells. containing face-paint and little alabaster vases At the head and fect of the dead Queen crouched the bodies of her attendants, The Queen's head-dress was marvellous. Coil after coll of gold ribbon surrounded a great wig, above which and across her fore: head ran a frontlet of labis lazuli and Cornelian beads, from which hung heavy rings of gold. Higher up there was a wreath of mulberry Jeaves in gold, surmounted by another whose petals were inlaid with apis lazuli and white shell The Queen wore a tight-fitting necklace of gold and garnets. Over the upper part of her body was a cloak entirely covered with bead~ work and fringed with dangling gold rings. The cloak was fastened on her right shoulder with three ping of gold and labis lazuli, on which was inscribed the Queen's mame.
The report suggests that her mourners had profaned and plundfered the King's tomb-—Reuter.
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