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)
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.
18157 (none) 1932,1008.176 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit, once glazed but glaze all perished. Crude design: a hunter, with birds in the field: triangle border.
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.
18172 (none) 1932,1008.157 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Eagle grasping 2 stags. Poor work.
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.
18174 (none) 1932,1008.168 (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit -- the glaze perished. Rampant goat (?) and dragon.
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 (?).
18182 (none) 1932,1008.175 (none) Cylinder seal. White marble. A double row of horizontal slashes.
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.
18184 (none) 1932,1008.164 (none) Cylinder seal. Light steatite. 2 trees (?) and a standard (?) rude early cutting: much worn.
18185 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Red limestone. An antelope and a rayed disk standard star above. Poor flat work, much worn.
18190 (none) 1932,1008.179 (none) Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square pyramidal design, a spread eagle.
18191 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit: glaze perished. Two flying geese.
18193 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Half of. Dark steatite. Standing figure of a god, and a column of inscription.