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)
16759C 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759D 31-43-73 (none) (none) 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16794 31-43-59 (none) (none) Cylinder Glazed Frit Type same as U.16.606.
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(?).
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]
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17017 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
17245 31-43-33, 31-43-33 (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Lazib, son of Bibi.[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17251 31-43-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17315 31-43-45 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
17317 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures and a winged dragon.
17318 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Tree and criss cross decoration.
17319 31-43-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Animals (?) at gate of shrine course cutting.
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.
17326 31-43-49 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures. Between them crescent on a pole. A third figure inverted to the other two.
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
17341 31-43-76 (none) (none) Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
17344 31-43-30 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Small portion missing. Presentation scene. Two standing figures before a seated god. Crescent moon.
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
17715 32-40-322 (none) (none) Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [drawing 1:1].
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]