The Sumerians now make and use all manner of sophisticated jewelry: necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets, and their ornaments.

A woman's burial headdress, for example, (such as the one found in the royal tombs at Ur and now displayed at the British Museum in London) might consist of sheet-gold pendants on strings of lapis lazuli.

Sumerian goldsmiths employ sophisticated metalworking techniques; casting, cloisonné enameling, cold hammering, soldering, and particularly granulation, the use of minute drops of gold, and decorating with filigree (fine-wire ornamentation).