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Puabi
Sign in to savethumb|right|Plan of tomb PG 800, drawn by archaeologist Katharine Woolley thumb|Reconstructed Sumerian headgear necklaces found in the tomb of Puabi on three of her attendants, housed at the British Museum Puabi (Akkadian: 𒅤𒀜 pu3-AD ), also called Shubad or Shudi-Ad due to a misinterpretation by Sir Charles Woolley, was an important queen in the Sumerian city of Ur, during the First Dynasty of Ur. Commonly labeled as a "queen", her status is somewhat in dispute, although several cylinder seals in her tomb, labeled grave PG 800 at the Royal Cemetery at Ur, identify her by the title "nin" or "
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Puabi
- Royalty.image
- Queen Puabi with attendants.jpg
- Royalty.image_size
- 300
- Royalty.caption
- Queen Puabi seated, with attendants,
- Royalty.succession
- Queen of Ur
- Royalty.reign
- c. 2550 BCE
- Royalty.death_date
- Aged c. 40
- Royalty.burial_place
- Natural History Museum, England, United Kingdom
- Royalty.dynasty
- First Dynasty of Ur
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Tomb of Puabi
- Objects in the tomb
- The "Death Pit"
- Theories of cause of death
- Remains
- Artifacts from tomb PG 800
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|Plan of tomb PG 800, drawn by archaeologist Katharine Woolley thumb|Reconstructed Sumerian headgear necklaces found in the tomb of Puabi on three of her attendants, housed at the British Museum Puabi (Akkadian: 𒅤𒀜 pu3-AD ), also called Shubad or Shudi-Ad due to a misinterpretation by Sir Charles Woolley, was an important queen in the Sumerian city of Ur, during the First Dynasty of Ur. Commonly labeled as a "queen", her status is somewhat in dispute, although several cylinder seals in her tomb, labeled grave PG 800 at the Royal Cemetery at Ur, identify her by the title "nin" or "eresh", a Sumerian word denoting a queen or a priestess. Puabi's seal does not place her in relation to any king or husband, possibly indicating that she ruled in her own right. It has been suggested that she was the second wife of king Meskalamdug. Although little is known about Puabi's life, the discovery of Puabi's tomb and its death pit reveals important information as well as raises questions about Mesopotamian society and culture.
The meaning of Puabi's name is uncertain, though it could perhaps mean "word of my father" or "orchard of my father".