Title: Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders     
Date: 1951     
Author: Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard     
Publisher: Oxford University Press     
Publication place: Oxford     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
17320 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene, two figures, one introducing the other to a crescent which stands upon a pole.
17309 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm on a high vase, on either end two figs saluting. Crescent on pole.
7121 (none) (none) B16289 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm branch between 2 worshippers, who hold hand upraised. Attributes: Crescent moon, Rampant Lion. 2400 BC. E.
7680 (none) (none) B16893 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity.
17018 (none) 1931,1010.44 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. 2 standing figures and between them palm rising from a high vase and crescent on a pole.
7525 (none) (none) B16901 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 3 figures obliterated. Presentation scene before seated god bearing staff in left hand. IIIrd Dyn. of Ur. [drawing of scene]
7897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 spread eagles. Reversed and undulating toothed band running between them and round the body of the seal.
7894 (none) (none) B16881 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam.
18801 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. A standing figure on either side of a crescent set on a pole. (Not pierced).
17738 (none) 1932,1008.159 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 standing figures; crescent on staff.
17707 (none) 1932,1008.161 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 men fighting lion; inscription containing royal name.
17745 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 men fighting lion; 2 lines of inscription.
18821 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark. Two standing figures, an emblem on a post, and two scorpions.
17663 (none) 1932,1008.156 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, black. 2 lions and 2 gazelles heraldically arranged; a star between the gazelles.
20 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite Greenish-grey. Seated figure of a divinity rt, before whom 5 standing figures.
3324 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Soapstone. About BC 2800. Winged gate on crouching bull [drawing]
12091 30-12-41 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. White. Presentation scene before seated deity, inscribed? Very poor condition: no photos possible.
12691 30-12-46 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Poor cutting. Eagle in flight, antelopes? Bulls.
17331 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 registers. Above: spread eagle and other animals. Below: Criss cross markings.
17316 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 heroes fighting a rampant lion.
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).
19869 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two human-headed bulls with birds on their backs : spread eagle, fish and animals.
18274 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Presentation scene, standing god and 2 other standing figures.
18278 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures.
18587 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. A naked hero, kneeling, holds two antelopes by their hind legs. Archaic style.