20305http://www165.123.244.137/subject/20305/Object TypeCylinder SealsMuseumUniversity of Pennsylvania MuseumSeason Number12: 1933-1934TechniqueImpressedTechniqueInscribedMaterialSteatiteMaterialJadeiteMaterialCopper AlloyU Number18919Description (Modern)two copper?/bronze? caps in bitumen. Ur-mah dim. Solar heroes. UE X: a contest of solar heroes. One is defeated and looses his crown, even when armed with a club or axe. Both wear the same horned mitre, hair doubled up, beard, and loin-cloth. A human context, where the bare-headed hero has caught his enemy with the pointed cap by the beard and pulls his head back ready to cut his throat. Between them a woman fallen to her knees, raises a threatening dagger towards the villain, who apparently held her bound by a rope. Seal of Ur-mah, dim: the architect. Below the inscription is a doe passant with head turned back. Green steatite cylinder with copper caps.Description (Catalog Card)Cylinder seal. Green steatite (?) with copper caps. Two standing gods shaking hands: two men killing a kneeling prisoner: two columns of inscription supported by an animal. Good work. Woolley's descriptionDescription (Archival)Jadeite. two copper?/Copper Alloy? caps in bitumen. Ur-mah dim. Solar heroes. UE X: a contest of solar heroes. One is defeated and looses his crown, even when armed with a club or axe. Both wear the same horned mitre, hair doubled up, beard, and loin-cloth. A human context, where the bare-headed hero has caught his enemy with the pointed cap by the beard and pulls his head back ready to cut his throat. Between them a woman fallen to her knees, raises a threatening dagger towards the villain, who apparently held her bound by a rope. Seal of Ur-mah, dim: the architect. Below the inscription is a doe passant with head turned back. Green steatite cylinder with copper caps.Find Context (Catalog Card)G104, Sargonid graveMaterial (Catalog Card)SteatiteMaterial as described by WoolleyMuseum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)35-1-22Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)35-1-22Measurement (Catalog Card)L. 26mm, D. 14mmMeasurement (Length)33.0Measurement (Diameter)16.0Measurement (Height)26Barrett. 1976. Near East Section, Ur, Inscribed ObjectsMeasurement (Width)14Barrett. 1976. Near East Section, Ur, Inscribed ObjectsMeasurement (X)26Measurement (X)33Measurement (Y)14Measurement (Y)10