An opulent oasis of exoticism, Gilgamesh Bar and Restaurant was a Pan Asian affair in the heart of The Stables Market Camden London. It contained a range of epic imagery intended to evoke the mystique of the Babylon era, all based on artifacts in the collections of London museums ..conceived in North London..designed thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia, and made in Northern India.
The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BC that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It comprises a hollow wooden box measuring 21.59 centimetres (8.50 in) wide by 49.53 centimetres (19.50 in) long, inlaid with a mosaic of shell, red limestone and lapis lazuli. It comes from the ancient city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq west of Nasiriyah). It dates to the First Dynasty of Ur during the Early Dynastic period and is around 4,600 years old. The standard was probably constructed in the form of a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace represented on each side through elaborately inlaid mosaics. Although interpreted as a standard by its discoverer, its original purpose remains enigmatic. It was found in a royal tomb in Ur in the 1920s next to the skeleton of a ritually sacrificed man who may have been its bearer.
51 cm by 183 cm by 5cm