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)
4869 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16808 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
13663 31-17-23 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100.
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
16262 31-43-37 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
16171 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. God ascending a mountain. 3 deities approaching kneeling animal.
15450 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures. God wearing conical horned headdress, upturned curl in nape of the neck; long coat open at the side, one leg raised and resting on a mountain top(?) approached by hero wearing a close fitting cap, tunic extending only to the knees and a weapon at the belt. Third figure full face - ( the other two in profile) is a nude female wearing a wig. Attributes: crescent moon under sun.
7552 (none) (none) B16885, B16885 Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shamash standing with left foot on raised step, right foot on ground, left hand raised to greet heavily draped male figure whose left shoulder is bare. Behind a goddess wearing flounced kaunakes skirt with hands upraised, and behind goddess AIA? a warrior with a bent staff carried in right arm. Below the inscription a Simish. Attributes: crescent and moon and Simish. Inscription: ^dBABBAR(^ilSumas): ^dA-A(^ilAia).
2994 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. III Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
11661 30-12-37 (none) (none) Cylinder. Grey steatite. 2 persons saluting crescent on staff. Inscribed : SudMI-IB dumu Ku-edin dam-gar.
15154 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. God, presenting deity and presented person, standing. 3 emblems on staffs. Ostrich & crane & scorpion.
15478 31-17-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion.
16102 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Balck steatite. 2 standing deities facing one another in salutation. Between them a vertical pole capped by a crescent moon. Palm rising from a vase with dates (?) suspended from it on either side.
16366 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures saluting. Between them a palm tree.
16550 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ili, son of Ki-dur(?)-lu... H.C. 30/II, 6.
7523 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. grey. Inscribed but faint. Two deities with hands upraised and between them armed warrior and sceptre with serpent's head. [drawing of scene]
17742 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Introductory scene; standing deity.
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.
17320 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene, two figures, one introducing the other to a crescent which stands upon a pole.
17315 31-43-45 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
16707 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. 2 figures saluting.
17762 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Incomplete; introductory scene, standing deity; 2 lines of inscription. -TU- DAM UR-URU(U)(?) -tu- wife of Ururudu HC 1931 / 3
17251 31-43-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16820A 31-43-31 (none) (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(?).