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)
7065 (none) 1927,0527.203 (none) Seal. Grey stone. Oblong rounded ends, on one side lion with flowing tail devouring a bird, on the other a human head, at side a fish, and on opposite side 5 holes in a line. E.
6988 (none) (none) B16302 Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E.
6296 (none) (none) B16291 Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E.
1044 (none) (none) B15271 Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
6133 (none) (none) B16294 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Upper and lower band showing gazelles passing sacred tree. About 3000 BC. E.
6807 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Pink. Unpierced. Figure between 2 posts. Attributes: 2 gazelles. Sacred horn? Half moon. B.
6342 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing with seal impression. Royal seal. [First column of text on card] dIbi ilSin God of his land mighty king of Ur King of the 4 regions of the world. [Second column of text on card] To Ur-nigin-gar the archivist (ga-dub-ba) son of Ar-shi-ih his servant it (the seal) has been presented. [the following is below both columns on the card] Presentation to seated Sin. H.C.
7015A (none) (none) (none) (none)
16629 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. Spread eagle and criss-cross pattern.
15475 (none) 1930,1213.524 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle.
16690 (none) 1931,1010.27 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle.
16134 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. spread eagle and Ass(?) Unpierced
16622 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. Minute. Spread eagle, 2 gazelles(?) Crescent moon.
17313 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Mottled. Dark grey and black spread eagle.
17331 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 registers. Above: spread eagle and other animals. Below: Criss cross markings.
7566 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Sard? Two registers. Inscribed Ur-sa(g)-ga; dumu.Ur-GAR-MUG. Portion of one end missing. Below spread eagle; above dragon?
7422 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
17663 (none) 1932,1008.156 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, black. 2 lions and 2 gazelles heraldically arranged; a star between the gazelles.
16410 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Standing hero, & beasts fightling, heraldically crossed. 16411
16133 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Theriomachy. Lions and stags.
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
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.
7617 (none) (none) B16877 Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC
7607 (none) 1928,1009.30 (none) Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Two gazelles rampant heads turned backward to face rampant lion? with feathered neck viz [drawing] and beaked head. Between the gazelles a palm tree. Sargonid?