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)
16156 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. Gilgamesh, Eabani & rampant lion.
16019 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Geme(?) -d. Nungal son of Ur-babi(-baga?) HC.30/I.5. UET 8/2 (Hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17323 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey. Roughly cut figures. Theriomachy.
16552 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder-seal, hematite. No personal name Shamash: Aia H.C. 30/II, 8.
17737 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Broken; seated figure; standing figure; line of inscription; scorpion. Son of Ur^d- HC 1931/5.
12329 (none) 1929,1017.370 (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark. Steatite. Deity within a shrine (represented by a gateway) & two male figures approach with offerings: the one carries an object thus- the other a goat: between the devotees and the deity a palm sprouting from a stand.
17706 (none) 1932,1008.177 (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Tree between 2 adoring figures; crescent above one; 1 line erased inscription.
15481 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene before seated deity. Very rough cutting.
3324 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Soapstone. About BC 2800. Winged gate on crouching bull [drawing]
2892 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2800 [drawing]
9200 (none) 1928,1009.262 (none) Copper knife Short thick blade with tang and 3 rivets
17708 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Woman being presented by goddess to seated major goddess; crescent between goddesses; geese beneath.
16155 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. one end chipped. 2 registers. Palm tree rising from a vase, scorpions(?) and geese.
16360 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli, unpierced. 2 registers: above, 3 standing figures - goddesses(?) in salutation. Below: 3 geese.
16123 (none) 1931,1010.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16560 (none) (none) (none) Steatite bead With Magical inscription. (cf. Neissner, Bablonian u. Assyrien. II, 214).
16398 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite. 2 standing figures engaged in salutation. Between them a palm rising from a high stand.
17310 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Two figures standing, palm on a high vase between them.
17309 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm on a high vase, on either end two figs saluting. Crescent on pole.
16340 (none) 1931,1010.23 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite 2 standing figures in attitude of alutation on either side of a palm which rises from a high vase. Crescent moon and scorpion.
16628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures on either side of a palm tree which rises from a vase: behind one of the figures a camel.
7628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Font from which rises a palm? On either side a snake? and beyond a hero attacking rampant lion with a sword. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the altar may represent not snakes but handles or running water? [drawing] cf. U.7640
648 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White steatite. 2 standing figures of a man being introduced by a god the latter with Sumerian flounced dress, then 2 columns of inscription, then (indistinct), a palm with drooping symmetrical date-clusters. Good engraving of 3rd dyn. style.
16820C (none) 1931,1010.41 (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16324 (none) 1931,1010.249 (none) Beads. 1 carnelian ball; 2-chalcedony lentoids; 1 hemispherical section lapis lazuli.