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)
17708 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Woman being presented by goddess to seated major goddess; crescent between goddesses; geese beneath.
16155 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. one end chipped. 2 registers. Palm tree rising from a vase, scorpions(?) and geese.
16360 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli, unpierced. 2 registers: above, 3 standing figures - goddesses(?) in salutation. Below: 3 geese.
16123 (none) 1931,1010.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16560 (none) (none) (none) Steatite bead With Magical inscription. (cf. Neissner, Bablonian u. Assyrien. II, 214).
16398 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite. 2 standing figures engaged in salutation. Between them a palm rising from a high stand.
17310 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Two figures standing, palm on a high vase between them.
17309 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm on a high vase, on either end two figs saluting. Crescent on pole.
16340 (none) 1931,1010.23 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite 2 standing figures in attitude of alutation on either side of a palm which rises from a high vase. Crescent moon and scorpion.
16180 31-43-3 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
16628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures on either side of a palm tree which rises from a vase: behind one of the figures a camel.
7628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Font from which rises a palm? On either side a snake? and beyond a hero attacking rampant lion with a sword. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the altar may represent not snakes but handles or running water? [drawing] cf. U.7640
648 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White steatite. 2 standing figures of a man being introduced by a god the latter with Sumerian flounced dress, then 2 columns of inscription, then (indistinct), a palm with drooping symmetrical date-clusters. Good engraving of 3rd dyn. style.
16820C (none) 1931,1010.41 (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16324 (none) 1931,1010.249 (none) Beads. 1 carnelian ball; 2-chalcedony lentoids; 1 hemispherical section lapis lazuli.
17018 (none) 1931,1010.44 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. 2 standing figures and between them palm rising from a high vase and crescent on a pole.
16664 (none) 1931,1010.42 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
16553 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-^d Da-?... of Nan(nar) H.C. 30/II, 9
16649 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene: 2 figures before an enthroned god.
16620 31-43-13 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Part of design obliterated. Presentation scene - originally 4 standing figures (3) only remain) before an enthroned god. Last figure carries a lamp(?). Crescent Moon.
16230 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with seated god, one worshipper and introducing god.
3237 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Diorite. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
16179 31-43-28 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
17358 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Dark bronze. Seated god, attendant stands behind, one standing figure in front. Crescent moon and other attributes.
17017 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.