The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur. Each lyre had a different animal head protruding from the front of the sound box to denote its pitch: the bull lyre was bass, the ...

A gold bull's head graced the front of the lyre, and its beard ... These lyres from Ur show that the Mesopotamians had musical technology that was cutting edge at the time.

The process of reconstructing the bull lyre proved a difficult and time-consuming job ... or lower in response to the change in the length of the string. Wooley, C. L. Ur Excavations: The Royal ...

Canadian musician Peter Pringle gave a haunting performance of the first twelve lines of The Exaltation of Inanna in its original Sumerian on a scale replica of the Gold Lyre of Ur, an ancient ...