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)
18172 (none) 1932,1008.157 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Eagle grasping 2 stags. Poor work.
17663 (none) 1932,1008.156 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, black. 2 lions and 2 gazelles heraldically arranged; a star between the gazelles.
16783C (none) 1931,1010.77 (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.
16805 (none) 1931,1010.74 (none) Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
16106 (none) 1931,1010.72 (none) Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Spread eagle and gazelle - a pair?
17330 (none) 1931,1010.70 (none) Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon.
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
16126 (none) 1931,1010.57 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Linear markings. Phoenician script. To be deciphered. 2 signs ? only.
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.
16278 (none) 1931,1010.50 (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone, much worn. Two crossed gazelled & two heroes fighting, two bearded man-headed beasts whose bodies cross in the same fashion.
17388 (none) 1931,1010.49 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit (?). Galloping animal, linear and cinquefoil designs.
16329 (none) 1931,1010.48 (none) Cylinder seal. Glass paste. Standing male(?) figure, pair of gazelles(?) Sacred tree(?) and above guilloche pattern.
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.
17018 (none) 1931,1010.44 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. 2 standing figures and between them palm rising from a high vase and crescent on a pole.
16664 (none) 1931,1010.42 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
16820C (none) 1931,1010.41 (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(?).
17401 (none) 1931,1010.38 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark green.
16024 (none) 1931,1010.37 (none) Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16221 (none) 1931,1010.368 (none) Adze, clay model. Nearly complete: the cutting edge badly chipped & part of the rib-flange missing. [drawing 1:2]
16600 (none) 1931,1010.35 (none) Steatite cylinder-seal (not pierced). Warad- ^dSin dumu ha-ma-tum-za (!) (obs. The inscription is not reversed as in ordinary seals. But the second line precedes the first.).
16123 (none) 1931,1010.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16803 (none) 1931,1010.33 (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16551 (none) 1931,1010.30 (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7.
16694 (none) 1931,1010.29 (none) Cylinder seal. Unbaked clay. 4(?) standing figures and a conventionalised tree(?).
16690 (none) 1931,1010.27 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle.