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)
17396 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Agate. Originally had studs at each end. Copper stamp protrudes beyond the end of the seal. Winged dragons. Rampant.
16124 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Engraved with design of serpent and standing figure.
16630 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Gilgamesh, Eabani and 2 rampant lions crossed.
17695B (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17695A (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17740 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Man shooting gazelle.
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
17341 31-43-76 (none) (none) Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
17343 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Crescent shaped. Design: Deeplay and crescent thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17121B (none) (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
17339 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Oval. Scorpion.
16618 31-43-9 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
16665 (none) (none) (none) Miniature Terracotta ladle. [drawing 1:1]
16121 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
17400 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Steatite. Black. Rectangular. Faces slightly convex. Engraved with linear decoration. [drawing]
17380 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Stone. Mottled. Crescent moon, circles and spears (?). [drawing]
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
17399 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Winged dragon squatting. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1]
17397 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Gazelle and crescent moon. [drawing 1:1]
17375 (none) (none) (none) Bracelet. Copper ring beads and double conoids with ridged ends. Carnelian balls, ring beads, double conoids, rock crystal scaraboid. Hematite (?) (?) Barrel. Rock crystal ball bead. 5 greenish glass paste scaraboids one with quasi hieroglyphic signs other with criss cross pattern, star and conventionalized tree. For order see field notet. Also hematite pendant oval, flat, crescent moon and 2 gazelles, mother giving such to young. [drawing 1:1]
16748 (none) (none) (none) Glazed cylinder seal. Criss-cross pattern, and in a reverse, 3 fish.
16609 31-43-35 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene before seated god. Behind throne a (shrine door)? depicted like a ladder with 6 rungs.
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]