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)
11491B 30-12-502 (none) (none) [no description, object identified in publication]
12690 30-12-47 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Blue-green. Winged dragon, rampant lion. Star.
12691 30-12-46 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Poor cutting. Eagle in flight, antelopes? Bulls.
13031 30-12-44 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Greenish. Presentation scene and 1 dwarf-like figure.
(none) 30-12-42 (none) (none) (none)
12091 30-12-41 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. White. Presentation scene before seated deity, inscribed? Very poor condition: no photos possible.
11661 30-12-37 (none) (none) Cylinder. Grey steatite. 2 persons saluting crescent on staff. Inscribed : SudMI-IB dumu Ku-edin dam-gar.
(none) 30-12-33 (none) (none) [no catalog card from field]
12795A 30-12-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Squat furniture type. Poor cutting. Stags? In procession and signs of doubtful import.
1044 (none) (none) B15271 Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
1054 (none) (none) B15276 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Very small.
1267 (none) (none) B15592, B15592 Cylinder seal; scene of "introduction" to seated god facing right, with star and crescent above. Inscription: Lugal-asum-gal (cf. U.1268) mar Ur-sul. Su-du-a.
1268 (none) (none) B15593, B15593 Cylinder seal in 2 registers: above, scene of "introduction" to a goddess. A woman is led forward by a female protecting deity. In lower register, 3 swans. Inscription: Ahat-ilti. Assat Lugal-usum-gal. (cf.U1267)
1423 (none) (none) B15596 Stamp seal. Square button in terracotta with rude incised device of a bird standing among plants. [drawing]
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
17017 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.
1706 (none) (none) B15594 Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
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.
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.
234 (none) (none) B15272 Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
487 (none) (none) B15256 Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
6002 (none) (none) B16287 Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII