Inlay decoration on the Lyre discovered in the Royal Tombs of Ur, Iraq, dating back to about 2600 B.C., now in the British Museum, London. The complex is made up of a series of scenes whose protagonists are therianthropic beings or animals represented with anthropomorphic postures. It is possible to recognize a bear in front of an ass playing a lyre, a goat handing two cups to a scorpion-man, a dog-like animal with a knife in the belt and a lion holding a pitcher.

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