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)
16609 31-43-35 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene before seated god. Behind throne a (shrine door)? depicted like a ladder with 6 rungs.
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
16612 31-43-53 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Presentation scene. 3 standing deities. Crescent moon and Palm.
16618 31-43-9 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
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.
16622 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. Minute. Spread eagle, 2 gazelles(?) Crescent moon.
16623 31-43-64 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Unfinished. Unpierced. 2 standing figures. Crude cutting.
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.
16629 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. Spread eagle and criss-cross pattern.
16630 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Gilgamesh, Eabani and 2 rampant lions crossed.
16649 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene: 2 figures before an enthroned god.
16656 31-43-62 (none) (none) Cylinder seal, carnelian. 2 bird-like beasts and star.
16664 (none) 1931,1010.42 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
16665 (none) (none) (none) Miniature Terracotta ladle. [drawing 1:1]
16677 31-43-24 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey marble? Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before a seated god.
16690 (none) 1931,1010.27 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle.
16694 (none) 1931,1010.29 (none) Cylinder seal. Unbaked clay. 4(?) standing figures and a conventionalised tree(?).
16707 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. 2 figures saluting.
16708 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. Gilgamesh & Eabani fighting rampant lion. Palm rising from champagne vase, water flows from it.
16709 31-43-44 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Nude female standing; god in long skirt, right foot tree and poised on a low stool, raises hand in greeting to a standing warrior who is clad in a short tunic.
16747 31-43-75 (none) (none) Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Circular. Upper side convex and decorated with 4 circles, and 3 parallel incisions. Under side a man with a bowl resting against back of neck over shoulders balanced by each arm-suspended from it are 3 water skins, and to one side of the man a stool(?). Pair of stars. [drawing] obv. for rev. see photo.
16748 (none) (none) (none) Glazed cylinder seal. Criss-cross pattern, and in a reverse, 3 fish.
16749 31-43-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. 2 crescents on poles and an X. Rough work.
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.
16758 31-43-197 (none) (none) Amulet. Blue glazed frit. In shape of goose with one wing extended. With crown(?) on head. Tip of crown & tip of base missing.