Queen Puabi
European Museums, The British MuseumQueen Puabi
The queen lay in her tomb chamber stretched out on her back on a wooden bier. She is identified as Puabi by an inscribed cylinder seal found next to her.
The queen's ornate headdresses and earrings are a magnificent version of those worn by the attendants in the royal graves. The reconstruction below was made by Leonard Woolley's wife, Katherine. The whole of the upper part of the queen's body was covered with beads of gold, silver, lapis lazuli, carnelian and agate of exceptionally fine quality. They hung vertically and had probably been fastened to a cloak. Her tomb chamber and death pit contained many objects of remarkable richness.
The Queen's Grave, PG 800, about 2500 B.C. (Early Dynastic III)
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