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)
17920 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Frit. Man shooting gazelle.
17921 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; 2 figures and deity standing; crescent on staff; line of inscription.
17959 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 2 gazelle; 2 men holding staff between them.
17970 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures and 1 kneeling; star; crescent; serpent.
18101 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated goddess with altar and tree.
18111B 32-40-332 (none) (none) [A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type.
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.
18121D (none) (none) (none) [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing]
18124A 32-40-346 (none) (none) [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
18124B 32-40-347 (none) (none) [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
18145 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introduction scene with seated goddess and 1 standing figure and a tree: star and crescent above.
18146 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two registers. Introduction scene, above, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures. Below, swans.
18151 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Crystal. Rough engraving. Introduction scene with standing god, worshipper and second god and a survivor.
18155 32-40-327 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pale amethyst. Warrior in chariot shooting with bow and arrow: a fallen enemy beneath the horse's hooves. Poor cutting.
18156 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black diorite. Seated god: before him an altar with 2 worshippers and a lute.
18167 32-40-320 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [drawing]
18170 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Frit. Over glazed = glaze now perished. Wild goat and tree.
18171 32-40-343 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay, baked, convex sides. Tree, ladder and rosettes. Very lightly scratched design.
18173 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze much perished. Winged demon before 2 standards -- a pair of horns and a cone respectively on a pole.
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.
18179 32-40-331 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze perished. Kid and palm tree.
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).
18181 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey stone. Very roughly cut. Tree and shrine (?).
18185 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Red limestone. An antelope and a rayed disk standard star above. Poor flat work, much worn.
18191 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit: glaze perished. Two flying geese.