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)
16783B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
17732 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Chalcedony. Persian. [drawing 1:1]
16899 (none) (none) (none) U number not assigned in field
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
16783A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
3234 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Pottery. Broken - Neo-Babylonian.
17353A (none) (none) (none) Manicure (?) implements. Bone. Polished. [drawing 1:1]
16177 31-43-26 (none) (none) Cylinder seal.White shell. Linear design.
12795A 30-12-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Squat furniture type. Poor cutting. Stags? In procession and signs of doubtful import.
17739 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Running gazelles.
17748 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. On lower end cut at an angle; running gazelles.
17613 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gazelle betwee 2 trees; crescent above; inverted crescent beneath belly.
17727 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Man, standing, facing gazelle with eagle displayed over back; man kneeling behind gazelle; crescent on staff.
9204A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 2 pairs of earrings. Each set consists of 3 rings linked one to the other. Each ring consists of a single coil with ends free. 1 set in condition. The other broken.
7897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 spread eagles. Reversed and undulating toothed band running between them and round the body of the seal.
4781 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
17850 32-40-333, 32-40-333 (none) (none) Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1
17866 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. 2 registers: below, 2 seated figures drinking through tubes. Above, spread eagle and 2 animals (? Gazelles) Archaic style.
17867 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Presentation scene with seated goddess 2 standing figures and remains of a column of inscription instantaneously defaced. Poor work.
17871 32-40-326 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription.
17872 32-40-334 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Diorite. Damaged, and part of the surface gone. Design worked entirely with the drill: a standing figure with arms raised and two seated figures, and an object which may be a libation vase.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
17895 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Hunter attacked by 3 rampant bulls (?) a second hunter with a bow helps from behind - behind, a palm tree (?).
17900 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Door of shrine on back of animal; crescent above table on which things are laid; star.