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After some digging, I found this:

Headdress of Queen Puabi – Ur (Southern Iraq)



Here’s the wiki link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puabi

And here’s another link from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - http://archaeology.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi...lease.html

It says:

PHILADELPHIA, PA—In 1922—the same year that Howard Carter made headlines with the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt—the Penn Museum and the British Museum embarked upon a joint expedition to the ancient site of Ur in southern Iraq. Led by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, this expedition astonished the world by uncovering an extraordinary 4,500-year-old royal cemetery with more than 2,000 burials that detailed a remarkable ancient Mesopotamian civilization at the height of its glory.

From this link: http://archaeology.about.com/od/mesopota...t_ur_2.htm

Figure Caption: Queen Puabi’s headdress. (Comb Height: 26 cm; Diameter of Hair Rings: 2.7 cm; Comb Width: 11 cm) The headdress of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian includes a frontlet with beads and pendant gold rings, two wreaths of poplar leaves, a wreath of willow leaves and inlaid rosettes, and a string of lapis lazuli beads, discovered on Queen Puabi’s body in her tomb at the Royal Cemetery of Ur, ca 2550 BCE.

Which makes it a lot larger than a human head, approximately 2 - 3 times as large.

This find places the Anak in Sumer (Iraq), long before Egypt, and also confirms that they were royalty (at least in this particular case).

The excavated treasures from Woolley's expedition were divided between the British Museum in London, the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the National Museum in Baghdad. Several pieces were looted from the National Museum in the aftermath of the Second Gulf War in 2003.