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)
14495 31-17-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal of white shell. The decoration consists simply of drill-point holes irregularly spaced over the whole surface.
19872 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Steatite 3 standing figures (poor and worn)
1265 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal the device mostly obliterated, but containing 3 lines inscription. Sa-ku-gi; mar Lugal-ka-gi; amel (?) DIM.
1413 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, broken. With device of the owner being led forward, facing left, to the presence of a deity who stands with left leg raised (upon a mountain?) and holds a spear in left hand. Traces only of inscription.
16656 31-43-62 (none) (none) Cylinder seal, carnelian. 2 bird-like beasts and star.
16545 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, seatite. No personal name, The god Shamash H.C. 30/II, 1.
16550 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ili, son of Ki-dur(?)-lu... H.C. 30/II, 6.
16551 (none) 1931,1010.30 (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7.
16554 31-43-34, 31-43-34 (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-Ki(?)-dur(?)-sag(?) servant of... H.C. 30/II, 10
16553 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-^d Da-?... of Nan(nar) H.C. 30/II, 9
16555 31-43-20, 31-43-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal, white calcite. Ga-ad-i(?)-li(?)-a, daughter of Ah(?)-na-nu-um H.C. 30/II, 11
8999 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene, seated god and two standing figures. Inscription of KU-RU-UG SHAMASH, a merchant.
6983 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 4 standing figures. Attributes: crescent moons. About BC 2000. B.
8410 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. White. Deeply cut - poor condition. Fighting men - fighting bulls.
15777 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay.
16749 31-43-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. 2 crescents on poles and an X. Rough work.
16612 31-43-53 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Presentation scene. 3 standing deities. Crescent moon and Palm.
16709 31-43-44 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Nude female standing; god in long skirt, right foot tree and poised on a low stool, raises hand in greeting to a standing warrior who is clad in a short tunic.
19242 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black shale? Men and animals.
19217 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite, carniated. Hero fighting animals.
16628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures on either side of a palm tree which rises from a vase: behind one of the figures a camel.
18922 35-1-16 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A god driving a chariot drawn by a winged gryphon(?); between the wings rises a goddess armed with a bow, in front of it is another god. One column of inscription. Inscription: Ur-gis-me-e (C.J.G.)
18947 35-1-11 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A spread eagle grasping two wild goats.
19004 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Hunter fighting animals.
15480 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed. Presentation scene before seated deity. In front of the seated deity, sits a dog. (wrongly numbered on photo-print U.15580)