DISC-RAM IN THICKET, C/8Ram in the Thicket Penn Museum Object #30 12 702 Early Mesopotamian No excavation in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) has attracted as much public attention as Sir Leonard Woolleys work, sponsored by the British Museum and Penn Museum, at the site of ancient Ur, Abrahams birthplace (Genesis 12: 4 5), in the 1920 30s. And, none of Woolleys discoveries got more intense coverage than the Royal Cemetery, a graveyard whose 2,000 burials included the tombs of the