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)
17868 (none) 1932,1008.173 (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Introduction scene with seated deity and 2 standing figures: poor work.
17895 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Hunter attacked by 3 rampant bulls (?) a second hunter with a bow helps from behind - behind, a palm tree (?).
17900 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Door of shrine on back of animal; crescent above table on which things are laid; star.
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.
17958 (none) 1932,1008.169 (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Kneeling man shooting many antlered gazelle.
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.
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]
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.
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.
18170 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Frit. Over glazed = glaze now perished. Wild goat and tree.
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.
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.