CBS Register: U.12357. Goat of gold, silver, lapis, shell, in the round, standing in a gold bush, on mosaic pavement.
Small figural furnishing found with a near duplicate in grave 1237 in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Though colloquially known as the 'Ram in the Thicket' it more accurately depicts a goat standing on its back legs to feed on leaves in a tree. The goat is formed of shell, lapis, and gold originaly formed over a wood and bitumen core. It was crushed flat by the weight of some nine meters of soil above it and had to be painstakingly restored.
Zettler, Richard L., and Lee C. Horne. Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1998. See: Pages 60-63/Figure 8
Aruz, Joan. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Page/Fig./Plate: 121
Miller, Naomi, Philip Jones, Richard L. Zettler, and Holly Pittman. "A Sacred Landscape of Sumer: Statuettes from Ur Depicting a Goat on a Tree." Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 20, no. 1. (2020): 27-47. Page/Fig./Plate: 29/3.1
