14830http://www165.123.244.137/subject/14830/Object TypeCylinder SealsMuseumUniversity of Pennsylvania MuseumSeason Number08: 1929-1930TechniqueImpressedIconographyFemaleIconographySeatedIconographyHand RaisedIconographyChildIconographyBird headed humanIconographyStoollooks like a ladder/benchIconographyGeometric Decorationspiral coming from what appears to be a pot with legsIconographyVesselpot(?)MaterialDioriteMaterialSteatiteU Number14489Description (Modern)Cylinder Seal, seated woman, pots, hut, spiderDescription (Catalog Card)Cylinder seal. Dark steatite.Woolley's descriptionDescription (Modern)field number on object looks like U.14487 but the correct number is U.14489 CBS Register: Seal cylinder. diorite. oldest seal found in deep level. seated woman. pot, hut, spider, etc. worked with bore. UE X: two women in profile are squatting, one on a high couch provided with bull's leg feet, the othe ron a low divan flat on the ground. The first holds in her extended hands a round jar with handles; the second a spool of wool. More jars and spools surround the solid loom (?) behind them. This is built of uprights and a cross-bar surmounted by a star (?). A spider spinning its spiral thread, a goat bounding over its pen, complete the symbolic picture. Dark steattite cylinder. This seal was found in a well-authenticated setting, along with a bowl of glazed frit turquoise blue and the steatite carving in the round of a wild boar of the Jamdat-Nasr period.Modern descriptionFind Context (Catalog Card)PFT. D6 -9m [Also lists +8m, meaning unclear]Material (Catalog Card)SteatiteMaterial as described by WoolleyMuseum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)31-17-16Measurement (Catalog Card)L. 23mm, D. 26mm,Measurement (Diameter)26Measurement (X)24