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Ram in the Thicket: A 4,500-year-old gold statue from the royal cemetery at Ur

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Archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered two nearly identical statuettes in a mass grave in southern Iraq in 1928 .

The smaller one is on display at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia , while the larger one is housed at the British Museum in London .

They may have been used as offering stands to support small bowls that did not survive.

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semi-formal

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English

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49

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