Sumerian Golden Treasure; Princess

Quoted by ISNA; The “Meskalamdug” hat is one of the oldest hats in the world that depicts the knot of a Mesopotamian princess.

This hat -free hat, discovered at the royal tomb in the city of Ur, Iraq, was probably used only for ceremonial ceremonies.

This carefully decorated golden hat to look like a wavy hair and its owner’s ears, was found in the year 6 by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, during excavations in the ancient city of Ur, now part of Iraq.

The work was discovered by a tomb in the royal cemetery, along with marble pots, golden dagons and gold bowls. One of these bowls is called “Meskalamdug” which means “the hero of the good land”. But since the tomb was not as big or rich as other royal tombs, Wolley put forward the assumption that the deceased was probably the prince instead of the king of Ur.

Two simulated copies of the hat were made a few years after the discovery, one given to the British Museum and the other to the Penn Museum. The original prototype, which was hidden first before the Gulf War and was protected by looting until the end of the year, is currently being held at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.

According to the Pen Museum information, the hat is 1.5 cm high and 2 cm wide. According to James Ogden, Zargari made two detailed copies of the hat in the early twentieth century, the original version of a gold -grade gold sheet.

In his personal notes, Oden described the hat as “made of real size of the human head” and “perhaps a ritual cover”. The small holes around the edge of the hat were probably used to attach a soft cloth layer, and Oden noted that the remains were found in the hat.

Hand -made gold has been molded and engraved to visualize a view of hair that is closed with a ribbon and a small knot behind.

The ears had a hole so that the person could hear from the hat and the extra holes under the ears were probably used to connect the chin strap.

Wolley wrote in a report in the year 9 about the tomb of Meskalamdug that its “Meskalamdug” hat is quite different from the ordinary Messi hats wearing ordinary soldiers. But this hat is similar to the hairstyle and hats of Mesopotamian rulers such as “Inatum” and “The Great Sargon” (Sargon Akkadi) in the 5th and 5th centuries BC.

Meskalamdug is one of the oldest hats to date.

Although there is evidence of the “royal cemetery” that a person named Meskalamdug was a Sumerian king, the works in the tomb do not indicate that it was “Meskalamdug”. Therefore, this hat may belong to the son or grandson of the King Meskalamdug, one of the first dynasty, whose second wife was the Queen of Purabi.