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)
5256 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
17388 (none) 1931,1010.49 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit (?). Galloping animal, linear and cinquefoil designs.
16656 31-43-62 (none) (none) Cylinder seal, carnelian. 2 bird-like beasts and star.
2915 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Paste - About BC 700 [drawing]
7912 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed. Originally green, bleached white. Winged dragon with long upright tail. Three snakes standing vertically. Two incised lines run round cylinder close to circumference at top and two similarly at bottom.
17396 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Agate. Originally had studs at each end. Copper stamp protrudes beyond the end of the seal. Winged dragons. Rampant.
16124 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Engraved with design of serpent and standing figure.
16630 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Gilgamesh, Eabani and 2 rampant lions crossed.
17695B (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17695A (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17740 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Man shooting gazelle.
16150 (none) 1931,1010.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Squatting monkey(?) bull, crescent moon .=L.622 [Typology?] Legrain puts seals 460-573 as Isin-Larsa. Numbers below 403 back to 270 as IIIrd Dynasty.
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
17342 (none) 1931,1010.14 (none) Button seal. Polished stone. Mottled. Fragment.
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.
17343 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Crescent shaped. Design: Deeplay and crescent thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17121B (none) (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
16106 (none) 1931,1010.72 (none) Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Spread eagle and gazelle - a pair?
17339 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Oval. Scorpion.
16618 31-43-9 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
16665 (none) (none) (none) Miniature Terracotta ladle. [drawing 1:1]
16121 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
17400 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Steatite. Black. Rectangular. Faces slightly convex. Engraved with linear decoration. [drawing]