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)
16134 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. spread eagle and Ass(?) Unpierced
18282 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. A naked hunter with 2 lions heraldically crossed and rampant. Rather poor archaic work.
18258 33-35-173 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene. Seated goddess, with 2 standing figures and 2 lizards. Poor condition.
18730 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Much worn. Figures in crude style.
18283 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A god and a worshipper, standing and 2 columns of inscription.
18114 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god and goddess: a small nude female figure, 2 dogs (?) and another animal and 3 columns and inscription.
18183 (none) 1932,1008.163 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god, a worshipper at a shrine (?) and 2 columns of inscription. Badly cut and much worn.
17871 32-40-326 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription.
18172 (none) 1932,1008.157 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Eagle grasping 2 stags. Poor work.
16230 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with seated god, one worshipper and introducing god.
16262 31-43-37 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
234 (none) (none) B15272 Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
16279 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated god and standing worshipper; faint trace of inscription carefully erased.
20051 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Standing nude figure : a statue (?) : scorpion, kids, and a chariot drawn by birds (?)
18790 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Three standing figures and a crescent on a pole: two columns of inscription, much erased.
18350 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two figures, standing one on either side of a staff whereon a crescent.
18500 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two standing figures and crescent on a staff.
629 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Well engraved with standing figure of a suppliant l. facing a seated goddess(?) rt = the crescent moon between. Three columns of inscription. 3rd Dynasty style.
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.
18349 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Darks steatite. Two figures, standing on either side of a date palm.
17872 32-40-334 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Diorite. Damaged, and part of the surface gone. Design worked entirely with the drill: a standing figure with arms raised and two seated figures, and an object which may be a libation vase.
6671 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Diorite? Black. Mottled. 3 lions rampant one upside down. B.
16174 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment (half only). Black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated and 2 standing deities. Crescent moon and dog.
18178 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment of. Broken in antiquity and apparently still used, as the broken edges are worn smooth. Grey stone. Triangle border, six-rayed rosette, wild goat and crescent.
7583 (none) (none) B16903 Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.