These designs included a lion-headed eagle, gazelles and leopards. A gold bull's head graced the front of the lyre, and its beard, hair and eyes were made of lapis lazuli. As reconstructed ...

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 ...