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)
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
18337 33-35-169 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
16618 31-43-9 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
16408 31-43-2 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
13722 31-17-24 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
18284 33-35-170 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
7916 (none) (none) B16906 Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head.
6872 (none) (none) B16315 Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
17715 32-40-322 (none) (none) Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [drawing 1:1].
6066 (none) (none) B16292 Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
6988 (none) (none) B16302 Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E.
7027 (none) (none) B16301 Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
16025 31-43-27 (none) (none) Quartzite Cylinder seal. HC../30 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16547 31-43-51 (none) (none) Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
17806C (none) (none) (none) Groups: From one burial. (A) Gold fillet, of narrow thin ribbon, twisted. (B) [B.1-.2] A pair of gold earrings, each consisting of two complete earrings intertwined, of the small hollow lunate type: in each case, one earring is fatter than the other: D.'s 15mm and 13mm respectively. One hoop is broken. (C) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, standing, human figures roughly cut. (D) Gold finger ring, hollow tube pressed in along the periphery thus [drawing]. (E) Beads: gold and carnelian, lapis and silver diamonds: gold and carnelian barrels and double conoids; mixed types, large lentoids, bugles, balls and double conoids of carnelian, agate, lapis. For order see field notes.
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]
12390C 31-17-119 (none) (none) Group: [A] Silver wire spiral coil hair ring (one). [B] Necklace of lapis and silver double conoid beads. [C] White shell cylinder seal much decayed: subject, 1 human figure and 4 fighting animals, heraldically crossed. [D] Copper pin with painted head [Type] IV B.
6748A (none) (none) (none) Fragment of seal impressions. (A) Bur-Sin etc. Ur azag-nun-na, minister, son of Arad-dani, judge, thy servant. (B) Same Seal used with Alteration of the royal name into Gimil-Sin the. worshiper introduced to seated Moon God- A lion "Passant" on the side of the throne.
6748B (none) (none) (none) Fragment of seal impressions. (A) Bur-Sin etc. Ur azag-nun-na, minister, son of Arad-dani, judge, thy servant. (B) Same Seal used with Alteration of the royal name into Gimil-Sin the. worshiper introduced to seated Moon God- A lion "Passant" on the side of the throne.