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)
13663 31-17-23 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100.
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
16262 31-43-37 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
16020 (none) 1931,1010.17 (none) Steatite Cylinder-seal. Namhani son of Ur-baga. HC.30/I.6. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16171 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. God ascending a mountain. 3 deities approaching kneeling animal.
15450 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures. God wearing conical horned headdress, upturned curl in nape of the neck; long coat open at the side, one leg raised and resting on a mountain top(?) approached by hero wearing a close fitting cap, tunic extending only to the knees and a weapon at the belt. Third figure full face - ( the other two in profile) is a nude female wearing a wig. Attributes: crescent moon under sun.
2994 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. III Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
11661 30-12-37 (none) (none) Cylinder. Grey steatite. 2 persons saluting crescent on staff. Inscribed : SudMI-IB dumu Ku-edin dam-gar.
17303 (none) 1935,0113.395 (none) Vase. Baked clay. Glazed. Two handles. Originally green. Type 1D LXXI. =225P.
15154 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. God, presenting deity and presented person, standing. 3 emblems on staffs. Ostrich & crane & scorpion.
15478 31-17-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion.
16102 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Balck steatite. 2 standing deities facing one another in salutation. Between them a vertical pole capped by a crescent moon. Palm rising from a vase with dates (?) suspended from it on either side.
16366 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures saluting. Between them a palm tree.
16550 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ili, son of Ki-dur(?)-lu... H.C. 30/II, 6.
7523 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. grey. Inscribed but faint. Two deities with hands upraised and between them armed warrior and sceptre with serpent's head. [drawing of scene]
17742 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Introductory scene; standing deity.
17738 (none) 1932,1008.159 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 standing figures; crescent on staff.
17321 31-43-61 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble (?). Brown. Sides convex. God standing behind a crescent on a pole and a second deity introducing the votary advances toward the pole. Dwarf like figure. Animal.
17320 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene, two figures, one introducing the other to a crescent which stands upon a pole.
17315 31-43-45 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
16707 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. 2 figures saluting.
17762 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Incomplete; introductory scene, standing deity; 2 lines of inscription. -TU- DAM UR-URU(U)(?) -tu- wife of Ururudu HC 1931 / 3
17251 31-43-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16820A 31-43-31 (none) (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(?).
17217C (none) (none) (none) [A-G] 7 cylinder seals. (A) (Steatite): Dagi s.o. Me-er-ra? (B) (Steatite): Inscription illegible. (C) (Hematite): [drawing of sign] a-hu-u (D) (Steatite): (E) (Steatite): Lu-?.. Dumu(?) Ap-pa-al dumu za-dim. (F) (Hematite): ^dIskar ^d.sa-la (G) (Steatite): Inscription illegible.