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)
18279 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above, presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standign figures. Below, swans. Poorly shaped and poorly cut: much worn.
18365 33-35-176 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 3 standing figures.
16122 31-43-50 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Banquet scene, 2 seated figures drinking from a common cup out of tubes. Behind one of them a standing figure. Poor cutting.
55 (none) 1923,1110.191 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
54 (none) 1923,1110.190 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
20062 (none) 1935,0112.39 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Geometrical design.
16399 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
18208 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Scene of worship. One seated and one standing figure and 3 columns of inscription much defaced.
19000 (none) 1935,0112.47 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two hunters fighting animals.
6133 (none) (none) B16294 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Upper and lower band showing gazelles passing sacred tree. About 3000 BC. E.
1054 (none) (none) B15276 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Very small.
20038 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Man fighting animals.
1706 (none) (none) B15594 Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
1437 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light grey stone. 2 registers: upper, 3 seated figures, female, with plant in jar between 2 of them; lower register, scene with ibex(?)
18184 (none) 1932,1008.164 (none) Cylinder seal. Light steatite. 2 trees (?) and a standard (?) rude early cutting: much worn.
17318 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Tree and criss cross decoration.
17740 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Man shooting gazelle.
17099 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. White. Presentation scene. Two standing figures before a seated god.
6806 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone? Grey. Geometrical and floral decoration. Decorated with heavily incised concentric circles and petals. E. [drawing]
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.
7617 (none) (none) B16877 Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC
7658 (none) (none) B16890 Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star.
2796 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Martu period. About BC 2100. [drawing]
18457 33-35-178 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Milky crystal. Geometrical (?) designs in 2 registers.
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.