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« on: March 03, 2013, 02:50:32 am »

   
Lost Collections of the Ancient World


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The story started in January 2011, when Paige Glenen and Katie Urban made an incredible discovery in storage rooms at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The pair found box after box of artefacts labelled simply  as “Old World Roman.”
Roman Terra Sigillata c. 200 CE -- Ubaid period pottery c. 5900-4000 B.C.E. - reference card found with the collection

Roman Terra Sigillata c. 200 CE — Ubaid period pottery c. 5900-4000 B.C.E. – reference card found with the collection
Inside Roman pots

At first they were excited at the prospect that two Classical archaeologists in Canada had a collection of Roman artefacts they could handle and explore, but then events took a remarkable turn.

It soon became very apparent that there was more to the story than they had originally thought as most of the boxes contained artefacts that were most definitely not Roman in origin; but where were they from, who found them, and more importantly – what were they?

There were some largely complete, or almost complete Roman pots stuffed with yellowed newsprint, but when they started to remove this stuffing they began to find many more small artefacts, pots, figurines and two cone-shaped clay pieces covered with cuneiform writing.
Gudean foundation cone, Mesopotamia (<a href='http://sumerianshakespeare.com/35901.html'>Gudea </a>was a Sumerian ruler who reigned between 2140-2120 B.C)

Gudean foundation cone, Mesopotamia (Gudea was a Sumerian ruler who reigned between 2140-2120 B.C)
Mystery collection

Now able to examine these new items, they were able to determine that the majority of the artefacts were Mesopotamian in origin and belonged to the archaeological site of Ur (in modern southern Iraq). The bulk of the collection dated to between  c. 5900 – 2000 B.C.E.

The Lost Collections of the Ancient World is now available online where you can learn much more about the discovery.

Source: Katie Urban and Paige Glenen

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2013/lost-collections-of-the-ancient-world
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